{"id":53274,"date":"2025-05-07T15:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T22:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=53274"},"modified":"2025-05-07T15:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T22:28:10","slug":"mehdi-taremi-becomes-second-iranian-to-reach-champions-league-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/05\/07\/mehdi-taremi-becomes-second-iranian-to-reach-champions-league-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehdi Taremi becomes second Iranian to reach Champions League Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranwire.com &#8211; MILAN, <strong>Mehdi Taremi has become the second Iranian footballer in history to reach the UEFA Champions League final after Inter Milan defeated Barcelona 4-3 on Tuesday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Inter Milan secured their second Champions League final appearance in three years, having previously reached the final in the 2022\u20132023 season, where they lost 1\u20130 to Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>The only previous Iranian to reach this stage was Ali Daei with Bayern Munich in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Taremi could potentially become the first Iranian to play in a final, as Daei did not get playing time in Bayern\u2019s match against Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>Taremi assisted a goal after entering as a substitute in the 72nd minute for Argentine captain Lautaro Martinez.<\/p>\n<p>Football experts praised his performance, particularly his defensive work.<\/p>\n<p>Inter Milan, three-time Champions League winners (1964, 1965, and 2010), will be seeking their fourth title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a beautiful moment,\u201d Taremi said after the match. \u201cOur work isn\u2019t finished yet, and now we want to make history.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranwire.com &#8211; MILAN, Mehdi Taremi has become the second Iranian footballer in history to reach&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":53275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,212,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iranian-legionnaires","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":2836,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53274","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=53274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53276,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53274\/revisions\/53276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}