{"id":49104,"date":"2023-06-09T12:41:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T19:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=49104"},"modified":"2023-06-09T12:41:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T19:41:24","slug":"former-tm-and-persepolis-defender-ansari-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/06\/09\/former-tm-and-persepolis-defender-ansari-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Former TM and Persepolis defender Ansari retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Mohammad Ansari, a former left back of Iran and Persepolis football teams announced his retirement from football on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He retires from football at the age of 31.<\/p>\n<p>Ansari started his playing career in Esteghlal in 2012 then joined rivals Persepolis after two years.<\/p>\n<p>He won four Iran Pro league titles with Persepolis, as well as one Hazfi Cup, and three Super Cups.<\/p>\n<p>Ansari was also a member of Persepolis side featured in two AFC Champions League finals in 2018 and 2020, where the Iranian side finished as runner up.<\/p>\n<p>He also played for the senior Iran national football team four times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Mohammad Ansari, a former left back of Iran and Persepolis football teams&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":49105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,136,172,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-persepolis","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":562,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49104","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=49104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49106,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49104\/revisions\/49106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}