{"id":45569,"date":"2022-04-15T09:44:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T16:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=45569"},"modified":"2022-04-15T09:44:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T16:44:24","slug":"bandar-anzali-stadium-renamed-in-memory-of-sirous-ghayeghran-%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/04\/15\/bandar-anzali-stadium-renamed-in-memory-of-sirous-ghayeghran-%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandar Anzali stadium renamed in memory of Sirous Ghayeghran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; BANDAR ANZALI, <strong>A football stadium in Bandar Anzali city was renamed after a member of Iran&#8217;s 1990 Asian Games-winning squad Sirous Ghayeghran.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Takhti Stadium in Bandar Anzali, north of Iran, was named after Ghayeghran, who was born in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ghayeghran was born in 1962 in Bandar Anzali and became one of Iran football\u2019s greatest legends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He inspired Iran to win the title in the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing. The iconic midfielder scored an extra-time goal against South Korea at the Workers&#8217; Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two years earlier, he had helped Iran national football team win a bronze medal in the AFC Asian Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He represented Iran national football team 43 times and scored six goals for the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ghayeghran started his playing career in Malavan in 1980 and played nine years for his hometown team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malavan Bandar Anzali\u2019s fans chant his name in the stadium for more than two decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ghayeghran was a role model for the Iranian football players because of his generosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He died along with his son in a fatal road accident in 1998 at the age of 36.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; BANDAR ANZALI, A football stadium in Bandar Anzali city was renamed after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":45570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,142,91,93,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-memory-lane","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-uncategorized"],"views":1310,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45569","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=45569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45572,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45569\/revisions\/45572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}