{"id":41580,"date":"2021-02-03T14:43:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T22:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=41580"},"modified":"2021-02-03T14:43:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T22:43:40","slug":"former-team-melli-defender-ali-ansarian-dies-of-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/02\/03\/former-team-melli-defender-ali-ansarian-dies-of-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Team Melli defender Ali Ansarian dies of coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Iran and Persepolis football team defender Ali Ansarian died of COVID-19 on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ansarian passed away at the age of 43 at the Farhikhtegan Hospital in Tehran, capital of Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He started his footballing career in Fajr Sepasi in 1996 and joined Persepolis two years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"454\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/5526290-700x454.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/5526290-700x454.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/5526290-350x227.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/5526290-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/5526290-768x498.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/5526290.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ansarian also represented the Iranian national football team from 1998 to 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, Mehrdad Minavand, who represented Iran in the 1998 FIFA World Cup, died of COVID-19 in Tehran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minavand was also a member of Persepolis football club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tehran Times extends deepest sympathy to Ansarian\u2019s 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 defender Ali Ansarian died of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":41581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,142,172,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-memory-lane","category-persepolis","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1540,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41580","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=41580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41583,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41580\/revisions\/41583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}