{"id":36395,"date":"2019-05-15T19:19:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T02:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36395"},"modified":"2019-05-15T19:19:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T02:19:03","slug":"esteghlals-khosro-heydari-to-retire-from-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/05\/15\/esteghlals-khosro-heydari-to-retire-from-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal\u2019s Khosro Heydari to retire from football"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran and Esteghlal long-serving right-back will retire from football on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 35-year-old player will hang up his boots after the match against Sepidrood in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heydari is one of the most-decorated Iranian footballers, winning three Iran Professional League with Esteghlal (two times) and Sepahan (one time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has also made 59 caps for Iran&#8217;s national football team. Heydari had featured in Team Melli during the 2014 World Cup campaign in Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"505\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/khosro-heydari-64143-700x505.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/khosro-heydari-64143-700x505.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/khosro-heydari-64143-139x100.jpg 139w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/khosro-heydari-64143-350x252.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/khosro-heydari-64143.jpg 735w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Heydari was a member of Iran national under-23 football team, participating in the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He started his playing career in 2002 at Aboomoslem and has also played at Pas, Paykan, and Sepahan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran and Esteghlal long-serving right-back will retire from football on Thursday. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1143,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36398,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36395\/revisions\/36398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}