{"id":41574,"date":"2021-02-03T14:25:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T22:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=41574"},"modified":"2021-02-03T14:25:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T22:25:09","slug":"mehdi-taremi-dedicates-motm-award-to-the-late-minavand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/02\/03\/mehdi-taremi-dedicates-motm-award-to-the-late-minavand\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehdi Taremi dedicates MOTM award to the late Minavand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; PORTO, <strong>Porto forward Mehdi Taremi dedicated his award to former Iran and Persepolis midfielder Mehrdad Minavand.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taremi was chosen as the Man of the Match Monday night after his eye-catching performance against Rio Ave in Primeira Liga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He helped his team beat Rio Ave 2-0 and remained in title race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of the match, Taremi respected his countryman holding a shirt with Mehrda Minavand\u2019s name on its back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minavand passed away last week 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; PORTO, Porto forward Mehdi Taremi dedicated his award to former Iran and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":41575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,142,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-memory-lane","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":2467,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41574","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=41574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41576,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41574\/revisions\/41576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}