{"id":41531,"date":"2021-01-27T18:18:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T02:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=41531"},"modified":"2021-01-27T18:18:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T02:18:44","slug":"former-iran-and-persepolis-midfielder-minavand-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/01\/27\/former-iran-and-persepolis-midfielder-minavand-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Iran and Persepolis midfielder Minavand dies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Iran and Persepolis football team midfielder Mehrdad Minavand passed away aged 45.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minavand passed away on Wednesday night after a battle with COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had been hospitalized at the Laleh Hospital\u2019s intensive care unit (ICU) in Tehran last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minavand started his career at Tehran based football club Pas in 1994 but joined Persepolis a year later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The left winger also played for Austrian club Sturm Graz and Charleroi from Belgium before returning to Persepolis once again in 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" height=\"311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/3A0BDFDE-92B3-4C59-B4FA-BE8BFBAAA942_v0_h.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/3A0BDFDE-92B3-4C59-B4FA-BE8BFBAAA942_v0_h.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/3A0BDFDE-92B3-4C59-B4FA-BE8BFBAAA942_v0_h-350x209.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/3A0BDFDE-92B3-4C59-B4FA-BE8BFBAAA942_v0_h-150x90.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Minavand was a member of Iran national football team in the 1998 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also won a bronze medal with the Persians in the 1996 AFC Asian Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/I5qfhC6AIqVO.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/I5qfhC6AIqVO.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/I5qfhC6AIqVO-350x254.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/I5qfhC6AIqVO-138x100.jpg 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tehran Times extends deepest sympathy to his family, loved ones, and friends over his demise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Iran and Persepolis football team midfielder Mehrdad Minavand passed away&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":41534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,89,91,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41531","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-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1413,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41531","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=41531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41535,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41531\/revisions\/41535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}