{"id":39151,"date":"2020-04-30T18:49:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T01:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=39151"},"modified":"2020-04-30T18:49:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T01:49:51","slug":"mehdi-mahdavikia-reveals-his-best-goal-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/04\/30\/mehdi-mahdavikia-reveals-his-best-goal-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehdi Mahdavikia reveals his best goal [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Mehdi Mahdavikia has revealed what he believes to be the best goal in his career.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mahdavikia made 111 appearances for Iran national football team and scored 13 goals.<br \/><br \/>The 2003 Asian Footballer of the Year, has scored memorable goals and has now lifted the lid on which one he feels was the best.<br \/><br \/>\u201cWhen asked about my favorite goal, I always remember a goal I scored against the U.S. at the 1998 FIFA World Cup. I think it was the best goal in my career,\u201d Mahdavikia told Asian football podcast.<br \/><br \/>Asked about his best teammate, Mahdavikia said, \u201cAli Karimi is the best teammate I&#8217;ve ever had.\u201d<br \/><br \/>He says the Australia match in the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification is the most difficult match in his career.<br \/><br \/>\u201cIt was my most difficult match because they were the better team and created so many scoring chances. But I thing the God granted the Iranian people a gift after their second goal and we could return to the match. We reached the World Cup after 20\u00a0years in Melbourne,\u201d the former Persepolis player said.<br \/><br \/>The Rocket considers his match against Juventus as the best performance in Hamburger SV&#8217;s, where he was the impetus that rallied his team back after being down 3\u20131 by scoring once, assisting one and winning a penalty for Hamburg that saw them take a 4\u20133 lead; Juve managed to equalize with an Inzaghi penalty.<br \/><br \/>\u201cZidane is the greatest player I\u2019ve seen and I am happy I played against him and Alessandro Del Piero. Zidane was the magician of the match,\u201d Mahdavikia said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mondiali di calcio Francia 98: Iran-USA 2-1 HL\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tujyfF1cVuM?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\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=\"Mahdavikia&#039;s remarkable performance against Juventus\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q1IPxUgOkeI?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; TEHRAN, Mehdi Mahdavikia has revealed what he believes to be the best&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":39152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,89,142,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-memory-lane","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1849,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39151","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=39151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39153,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39151\/revisions\/39153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}