{"id":39816,"date":"2020-07-27T09:11:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T16:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=39816"},"modified":"2020-07-27T09:11:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T16:11:46","slug":"antwerp-complete-signing-of-alireza-beiranvand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/07\/27\/antwerp-complete-signing-of-alireza-beiranvand\/","title":{"rendered":"Antwerp complete signing of Alireza Beiranvand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ANTWERP, <strong>Belgian top flight football club Royal Antwerp have completed the signing of Iranian goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 28-year-old goalie joined Antwerp a couple of months ago but failed to travel to Belgium due to the flight restriction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In mid-June, the measures taken by the European Union (EU) due to coronavirus pandemic canceled his trip. The visa problems had also made the situation more complicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beiranvand finally arrived in Antwerp in July and successfully underwent a medical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iran star has penned a three-year contract with Antwerp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, Persepolis claimed Iran\u2019s league title for the fourth time in a row. Hard-nosed Beiranvand actually had a significant impact on the team\u2019s success during the past years. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beiranvand became well-known for his ability to save penalty kicks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 2018 FIFA World Cup, he garnered global attention when denying Cristiano Ronaldo his fifth goal of the tournament with a save from the penalty spot.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beiranvand has also played a key role in Iran national football team over the past years, especially when defensive-minded Carlos Queiroz was in charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ANTWERP, Belgian top flight football club Royal Antwerp have completed the signing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":39817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1112,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39816","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=39816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39818,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39816\/revisions\/39818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}