{"id":37266,"date":"2019-08-13T09:58:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T16:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37266"},"modified":"2019-08-13T09:58:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T16:58:51","slug":"former-team-melli-midfielder-meydavoudi-hangs-up-his-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/08\/13\/former-team-melli-midfielder-meydavoudi-hangs-up-his-boots\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Team Melli midfielder Meydavoudi hangs up his boots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; MASJED SOLEYMAN, <strong>Former Iran and Esteghlal football teams Milad Meydavoudi announced his retirement from football on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last season, he played for his hometown team Naft Masjed Soleyman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTime has gone by quickly and it is time for me to go. It\u2019s hard to say goodbye but I want to tell football fans in Masjed Soleyman, Ahvaz and Tehran I have stopped playing. It was a bad time to suffer an injury in 2010 but you supported me always and pushed me forward. I was forced to leave my favorite team Esteghlal. But I am looking forward to seeing you as soon as possible, maybe on the bench of Esteghlal,\u201d Meydavoudi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 34-year-old player started his playing career in Esteghlal Ahvaz and joined Esteghlal after six years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/164707_179683555399962_2460447_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/164707_179683555399962_2460447_n.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/164707_179683555399962_2460447_n-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/164707_179683555399962_2460447_n-350x234.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meydavoudi has also played for Rah Ahan, Saipa, Siahjamegan, Pas and Aluminium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was a member of Iran U20 football team at the 2004 AFC Youth Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meydavoudi was called up to the Iran national football team in June 2007 for the West Asian Football Federation Championship 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He made his debut for Team Melli in Iran&#8217;s first match against Iraq. He scored his first national goal in Iran&#8217;s second match against Palestine in June 20, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meydavoudi made 29 appearances for Iran national football team and scored six goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; MASJED SOLEYMAN, Former Iran and Esteghlal football teams Milad Meydavoudi announced his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":37268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,164,142,165,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-memory-lane","category-persian-gulf-pro-league","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":697,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37266","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=37266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37269,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37266\/revisions\/37269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}