{"id":38142,"date":"2019-12-12T19:29:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T03:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=38142"},"modified":"2019-12-12T19:29:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T03:29:53","slug":"shoja-khalilzadeh-voted-best-goal-of-acl-2019-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/12\/12\/shoja-khalilzadeh-voted-best-goal-of-acl-2019-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoja Khalilzadeh voted best goal of ACL 2019 [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, \u00a0<strong>After nearly four million votes, the best goal of the 2019 AFC Champions League has been decided with Shojae Khalilzadeh&#8217;s incredible scissor kick for Persepolis against Al Ahli named the winning effort following the public poll on the-AFC.com.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ten fantastic goals were nominated that spanned the Continent from Uzbekistan to Urawa, but it was Persepolis&#8217; defender Khalilzadeh whose amazing acrobatics that captured the attention and favour of Asia&#8217;s football fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranian had previously won Goal of the Week for Matchday Three and Goal of the Group Stage, and so completes his hat-trick with the overall best goal of the 2019 AFC Champions League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johor Darul Ta&#8217;zim forward Safawi Rasid ran Khalilzadeh close but ultimately finished in second with Al Ittihad&#8217;s Romarinho in third.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khalilzadeh spoke exclusively to The-AFC.com after the poll concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It was easily the best goal of my career because I scored it for the best club in the world, Persepolis,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I would like to thank all the fans who voted for me to win. It means a lot to me for my goal to be voted best in the 2019 AFC Champions League and to be recognized by the AFC. Once again, I would like to thank the fans for all their support and love.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the 30-year-old and his teammates were eliminated at the Group Stage in this year&#8217;s competition, Iran 2018-19 league champions will have a chance to go again as they enter the draw on Tuesday for the 2020 edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Persepolis FC 2-0 Al Ahli Saudi FC (AFC Champions League 2019: Group Stage)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GHR0I4xbm9M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, \u00a0After nearly four million votes, the best goal of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":38143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136,172,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-persepolis","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":988,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38142","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=38142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38144,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38142\/revisions\/38144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}