{"id":39069,"date":"2020-04-17T15:58:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T22:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=39069"},"modified":"2020-04-17T15:58:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T22:58:03","slug":"beiranvand-named-afc-asian-fifa-world-cup-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/04\/17\/beiranvand-named-afc-asian-fifa-world-cup-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Beiranvand named #AFC Asian FIFA World Cup Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Iran international goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand has been named the Asian FIFA World Cup Hero.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a poll conducted by the-afc.com, 68 percent of participants voted the Iranian goalkeeper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beiranvand beat Japanese legendary midfielder Keisuke Honda who earned 24 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australian Tim Cahill, Sami Al Jaber from Saudi Arabia and Korean Park Ji-sung were the other candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winner was chosen by a panel of experts combined with the results of the public vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beiranvand was Iran\u2019s star at the 2018 FIFA World Cup group stage, where he saved Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s penalty and kept his country\u2019s hopes alive in Portugal match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Persepolis shot-stopper shone as Iran edged past Morocco 1-0 in their opener and he then produced another string of excellent saves in a narrow 1-0 loss to Spain, when only a fortuitous Diego Costa goal got the better of the big custodian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Iran international goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand has been named the Asian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,89,172,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-persepolis","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":499,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39069","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=39069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39070,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39069\/revisions\/39070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}