{"id":20146,"date":"2013-01-13T01:59:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T00:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/01\/13\/283229\/mahdavikia-voted-asia-most-liked-player\/"},"modified":"2013-01-13T01:59:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T00:59:54","slug":"mahdavikia-is-top-of-the-pops-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/mahdavikia-is-top-of-the-pops-in-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahdavikia is top of the pops in Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>Iranian football player Mehdi Mahdavikia has been voted the most popular footballer in Asia and the second most well-liked in the world for the year 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The results of a poll recently conducted on the website of the International Federation of Football History &amp; Statistics showed that the 35-year-old Iranian, who currently plays for the Persepolis football club in Iran&#8217;s Premier League, tops the list as Asia\u2019s most popular football player with 103,703 votes.<\/p>\n<p>He was also chosen as the world\u2019s second most popular footballer after Juan Fernando Arango Saenz, who plays for Borussia Monchengladbach in Germany. The 32-year-old Venezuelan received 104,297 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper Seyyed Mehdi Rahmati, who currently plays for the Iranian national football team and Esteqlal in Iran&#8217;s Premier League, got 79,533 votes and was named the world\u2019s and Asia\u2019s third most popular footballer.<\/p>\n<p>MP\/HGL<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Iranian football player Mehdi Mahdavikia has been voted the most popular footballer in Asia and the second most well-liked in the world for the year 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The results of a poll recently conducted on the website of the International Federation of Football History &amp; Statistics showed that the 35-year-old Iranian, who currently plays for the Persepolis football club in Iran&#8217;s Premier League, tops the list as Asia&rsquo;s most popular football player with 103,703 votes.<\/p>\n<p>He was also chosen as the world&rsquo;s second most popular footballer after Juan Fernando Arango Saenz, who plays for Borussia Monchengladbach in Germany. The 32-year-old Venezuelan received 104,297 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper Seyyed Mehdi Rahmati, who currently plays for the Iranian national football team and Esteqlal in Iran&#8217;s Premier League, got 79,533 votes and was named the world&rsquo;s and Asia&rsquo;s third most popular footballer.<\/p>\n<p>MP\/HGL<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}