{"id":55073,"date":"2026-06-27T16:45:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T23:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=55073"},"modified":"2026-06-27T16:45:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T23:45:43","slug":"ramin-rezaeian-becomes-irans-all-time-top-scorer-at-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/06\/27\/ramin-rezaeian-becomes-irans-all-time-top-scorer-at-the-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramin Rezaeian becomes Iran\u2019s all-time top scorer at the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irna.ir &#8211; SEATTLE, <strong>Iranian defender Ramin Rezaeian has become Iran\u2019s all-time top scorer in the history of the FIFA World Cup after finding the net against Egypt.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s third match of the 2026 World Cup group stage has ended in a 1\u20131 draw against Egypt, keeping the national team unbeaten with three consecutive draws and still in contention for qualification.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s goal was scored by Ramin Rezaeian, the national team\u2019s right-back, in the 19th minute, marking his third strike across World Cup editions and placing him alone at the top of Iran\u2019s all-time scoring chart in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The defender had previously scored against Wales at the 2022 World Cup, becoming the first Iranian player ever to score in two different editions.<\/p>\n<p>He was also named Player of the Match by FIFA at the end of today\u2019s game, adding to his standout performance earlier in the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irna.ir &#8211; SEATTLE, Iranian defender Ramin Rezaeian has become Iran\u2019s all-time top scorer in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":55075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":148,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55073","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=55073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55076,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55073\/revisions\/55076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}