{"id":39834,"date":"2020-07-29T10:52:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T17:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=39834"},"modified":"2020-07-29T10:52:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T17:52:48","slug":"beiranvand-receives-warm-welcome-upon-arriving-at-antwerp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/07\/29\/beiranvand-receives-warm-welcome-upon-arriving-at-antwerp\/","title":{"rendered":"Beiranvand receives warm welcome upon Antwerp arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; ANTWERP, <strong>Iranian goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand was given a warm welcome to Royal Antwerp.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The club\u2019s Instagram account has published a post, welcoming the 27-year-old goalie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beiranvand joined Antwerp from Persepolis on a three-year deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has become renowned as one of the&nbsp;best shot-stoppers in Asia, playing a key role for the Persepolis side which recently won the Iran Pro League for the fourth successive season, and finishing as the AFC Player of the Year runner-up in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has also performed with distinction for the Iranian national team, famously saving a Cristiano Ronaldo penalty kick at the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Royal Antwerp finished fourth in a truncated 2019\u201320 Belgian First Division A season, giving Beiranvand the opportunity to play in the 2020-21 UEFA Europa League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beiranvand isn\u2019t the first Asian player to sign for Antwerp, who featured Japanese midfielder Koji Miyoshi on loan last season, and is a former home of ex-China PR striker Dong Fangzhuo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new Belgian season is scheduled to begin on August 8, with Antwerp up against KAA Gent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; ANTWERP, Iranian goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand was given a warm welcome to Royal Antwerp&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":39835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1094,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39834","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=39834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39837,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39834\/revisions\/39837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}