{"id":42076,"date":"2021-04-12T07:28:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T14:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=42076"},"modified":"2021-04-12T07:28:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T14:28:58","slug":"afc-mehdi-ghaedi-esteghlals-key-man-in-acl-group-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/04\/12\/afc-mehdi-ghaedi-esteghlals-key-man-in-acl-group-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC: Mehdi Ghaedi &#8211; Esteghlal&#8217;s key man in ACL group stage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Esteghlal football team forward Mehdi Ghaedi is a key man for the Iranian team in the 2021 AFC Champions League group stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group C consists of Al-Ahli Saudi, Esteghlal, Iraqi powerhouse Al-Shorta and one of Qatar\u2019s most successful sides Al-Duhail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Long touted as the next big name to come out of the Iran Pro League, 22-year-old Ghaedi is starting to deliver on his potential as a promising youngster and is becoming an integral part of the Esteghlal side hoping to reach the knockout stage for the fourth time in five years, the-afc.com wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 2020 AFC Champions League, Ghaedi scored a goal and assisted another. He created seven chances and took seven shots on target, both numbers top of the charts for the club which played in a three-team group after the withdrawal of Al-Wahda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Esteghlal football team forward Mehdi Ghaedi is a key man for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":42077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,173,84,136,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42076","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":1474,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42076","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=42076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42078,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42076\/revisions\/42078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}