{"id":41561,"date":"2021-01-31T08:50:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T16:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=41561"},"modified":"2021-01-31T08:50:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T16:50:02","slug":"ali-gholizadeh-and-fereshteh-karimi-dedicate-their-goals-to-mehrdad-minavand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/01\/31\/ali-gholizadeh-and-fereshteh-karimi-dedicate-their-goals-to-mehrdad-minavand\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Gholizadeh and Fereshteh Karimi dedicate their goals to Mehrdad Minavand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; CHARLEROI, <strong>Ali Gholizadeh and Fereshteh Karimi dedicated their goals to former Persepolis and Iran midfielder Mehrdad Minavand.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minavand passed away Wednesday night at the age of 45 after losing battle against COVID-19. He 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<p>Minavand was a member of Iran national football team in the 1998 FIFA World Cup, where they registered their first-ever victory in the competition against the U.S. in France. 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=\"700\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/3676391-700x484.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/3676391-700x484.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/3676391-350x242.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/3676391-145x100.jpg 145w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/3676391-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/3676391.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fereshteh Karimi scored for Qadsia against Al Fatat in first leg of Kuwait Futsal League semis and dedicated her goal to Minavand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qadsia won the match 3-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Belgium, Charleroi winger Gholizadeh scored his team&#8217;ss first goal against Kortrijk in Jupiler Pro League, helping his team win the match 3-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranian international player also dedicated his goal to the former Iran midfielder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Persepolis players also did not celebrate their goal against Machine Sazi in IPL on Saturday, dedicating it to their former No. 25, whilst having all players don &#8220;Minavand&#8221; on the back of their shirts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"642\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snip20210131_3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snip20210131_3.png 642w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snip20210131_3-350x215.png 350w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snip20210131_3-150x92.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; CHARLEROI, Ali Gholizadeh and Fereshteh Karimi dedicated their goals to former Persepolis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":41562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,89,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41561","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-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1307,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41561","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=41561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41565,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41561\/revisions\/41565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}