{"id":40957,"date":"2020-11-14T09:43:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T17:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40957"},"modified":"2020-11-14T09:43:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T17:43:07","slug":"esteghlal-forward-motahari-chosen-as-best-2020-acl-west-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/11\/14\/esteghlal-forward-motahari-chosen-as-best-2020-acl-west-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal Forward Motahari chosen as &#8216;Best 2020 ACL (West) Forward&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Esteghlal football team hitman Amir Arsalan Motahari was selected the best 2020 ACL (West) forward by the fans.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using match data from the tournament, the-afc.com selected seven standout performers who completed the 2020 AFC Champions League (West) to present a star-studded cast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of an exciting Esteghlal frontline, Motahari joined the Tehran giant from Zob Ahan in early 2020 and scored on his second AFC Champions League appearance for them \u2013 a 2-1 loss to Al-Ahli Saudi in February \u2013 before making a crucial contribution in Doha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With his side a goal down against Iraq&#8217;s Al-Shorta, substitute Motahari pounced on a loose ball to level the scores and secure a 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That result left qualification in the Iranian side&#8217;s hands as it went on to claim a 3-0 win over Al-Ahli to progress to the next round at Al-Shorta&#8217;s expense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Motaahri won the poll with 44.56 percent of votes, beating Pedro Conde, Igor Sergeev, Almoez Ali, Welliton, Baghdad Bounedjah and Abderrazak Hamdallah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Esteghlal football team hitman Amir Arsalan Motahari was selected the best&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,173,84,136,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":608,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40957","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=40957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40959,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40957\/revisions\/40959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}