{"id":43872,"date":"2021-10-15T20:40:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T03:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43872"},"modified":"2021-10-15T20:40:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T03:40:21","slug":"afc-torabi-can-inspire-persepolis-to-third-final-in-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/10\/15\/afc-torabi-can-inspire-persepolis-to-third-final-in-four-years\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC: Torabi can inspire Persepolis to third final in four years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Mahdi Torabi can inspire Persepolis FC into their third final of the AFC Champions League in four years, the-afc.com wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a Persepolis side that has seen so many of its stars depart in recent years, Torabi is one who has returned, with the Iran international spending a year in Qatar before opting for a move back to Tehran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike the other seven teams in the quarter-finals, Persepolis&#8217; domestic campaign has yet to kick off, but it was Torabi&#8217;s last-minute cross-cum-shot in the Round of 16 that saw off FC Istiklol 1-0 to seal a return to the last eight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Torabi has goals in him, it is his creativity that makes him stand out. Going into the quarter-finals, the 27-year-old has more assists (5) and has created more chances (22) than any other player in the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Torabi was on loan at Saipa when Persepolis reached the 2018 final and in Qatar for the 2020 edition; he may now view this as his chance to inspire the Tehran giant into its third final in four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Mahdi Torabi can inspire Persepolis FC into their third final of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":43873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136,172,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-persepolis","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1410,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43872","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=43872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43874,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43872\/revisions\/43874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}