{"id":11675,"date":"2010-11-23T18:17:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T02:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/11\/23\/mohajerani-moved-as-past-glories-honoured\/"},"modified":"2010-11-23T18:17:53","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T02:17:53","slug":"mohajerani-moved-as-past-glories-honoured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/11\/23\/mohajerani-moved-as-past-glories-honoured\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohajerani moved as past glories honoured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mohajerani\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.the-afc.com\/afc\/coaches\/m\/300X200\/acn10_mohajenari.jpg\" \/>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Legendary Iran coach Heshmat Mohajerani, the man who led Iran to the  1976 AFC Asian Cup title and qualification to the FIFA World Cup two  years later, has admitted his surprise and delight that the AFC is  honouring coaches for their past glories. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 71-year-old was at the helm of an Iranian national team that  was the continental powerhouse of the late 70s but didn\u2019t anticipate  his achievements would be lauded some three decades later at the AFC  Asian Coaches Night.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking ahead of the ceremony at the  Marriott Hotel in Kuala Lumpur where the man that led Iran to an  unprecedented four consecutive Asian youth championships will be one of  38 coaches receiving the AFC Gold Service Award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConducting such  an event is a milestone and inviting the people who served Asian  football in the past and appreciating what they have done is very  pleasant indeed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of us were thinking that we have been forgotten but the AFC has surprised us all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am feeling like I am the young Mohajerani today and I thank the AFC and the President (Mohamed) Bin Hammam.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Legendary Iran coach Heshmat Mohajerani, the man who led Iran to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3354,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}