{"id":42781,"date":"2021-06-24T13:40:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T20:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=42781"},"modified":"2021-06-24T13:40:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T20:40:39","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-sends-thanks-to-iran-legend-ali-daei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/06\/24\/cristiano-ronaldo-sends-thanks-to-iran-legend-ali-daei\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo sends thanks to Iran legend Ali Daei"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; BUDAPEST, <strong>Cristiano Ronaldo thanked Ali Daei for his congratulation message after the Portugal forward scored his 109th goal in Wednesday\u2019s Euro 2020 game against France. Ronaldo equaled the Iran striker&#8217;s all-time international record.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daei scored a remarkable 109 goals in 149 appearances for Iran between 1993 and 2006, an achievement many thought would never be matched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daei has said on several occasions that he would be &#8220;delighted&#8221; if Ronaldo broke his record, as he believes the Juventus striker ranks among the best three players in history, alongside Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ronaldo responded to Daei with an Instagram story of his own, with the Portugal legend saying: \u201cTrue champions remain champions forever. I&#8217;m very proud to read such kind words from a huge idol like you. Thank you Ali Daei.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ronaldo can edge clear of Daei with Portugal having advanced to the Euro 2020 Round of 16 as one of the best third-placed teams. The defending champion plays Belgium on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/E4pODQJX0AcB7rO-560x700.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/E4pODQJX0AcB7rO-560x700.jpeg 560w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/E4pODQJX0AcB7rO-280x350.jpeg 280w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/E4pODQJX0AcB7rO-80x100.jpeg 80w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/E4pODQJX0AcB7rO-768x960.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/E4pODQJX0AcB7rO.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; BUDAPEST, Cristiano Ronaldo thanked Ali Daei for his congratulation message after the Portugal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":42783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,89,142,91,93,86,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-memory-lane","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-uncategorized"],"views":2216,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42781","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=42781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42784,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42781\/revisions\/42784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}