{"id":36930,"date":"2026-02-08T11:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T07:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/irans-ahmad-abbasi-named-most-valuable-player\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T11:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T07:40:16","slug":"irans-ahmad-abbasi-named-most-valuable-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/irans-ahmad-abbasi-named-most-valuable-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Ahmad Abbasi named Most Valuable Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/5680849.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN &#8211; Saied Ahmad Abbasi capped a memorable AFC Futsal Asian Cup Indonesia 2026 after he was named the tournament\u2019s Most Valuable Player on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Abbasi played a starring role in Iran defending their title by defeating Indonesia 5-4 on penalties in the final, having lit up the tournament with his consistent performances throughout.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the end of the day, I got the award but it was on behalf of all players,&#8221; said Ahmad Abbasi. \u201cI would like to dedicate the award to my teammates and the most important thing is that the trophy remained with Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old, who was also the Most Valuable Player in the 2024 edition, scored the all-important equalizer to make it 5-5 against Indonesia to take the tie to penalties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> In the shootout, Abbasi made no mistake with his penalty as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/523576\/Iran-s-Ahmad-Abbasi-named-Most-Valuable-Player\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN &#8211; Saied Ahmad Abbasi capped a memorable AFC Futsal Asian Cup Indonesia 2026 after he was named the tournament\u2019s Most Valuable Player on Saturday. Abbasi played a starring role in Iran defending their title by defeating Indonesia 5-4 on penalties in the final, having lit up the tournament with his consistent performances throughout. &#8220;At &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-36930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}