{"id":12182,"date":"2011-05-25T18:16:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T01:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/05\/25\/fifa-president-expresses-condolence-over-hejazis-death\/"},"modified":"2011-05-25T18:16:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T01:16:51","slug":"fifa-president-expresses-condolence-over-hejazis-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/05\/25\/fifa-president-expresses-condolence-over-hejazis-death\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA president expresses condolence over Hejazi\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"fifa_logo-big\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fifa_logo-big.jpg\" height=\"295\" width=\"365\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>FIFA president Sepp Blatter on Wednesday expressed condolence to Iran Football Federation over the sad demise of Nasser Hejazi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s legendary football goalkeeper passed away on Monday of lung cancer in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Former Esteghlal goalkeeper and coach was buried in Tehran\u2019s Behesht-e Zahra cemetery on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy heart is full of sadness after hearing that Nasser Hejazi is dead. He gave Iran football team sterling service as a goalkeeper. Hejazi took part twice in the AFC Asian Cup as well as the 1976 Olympic Games. Hejazi also played for Iran football team in the 1978 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of FIFA and the worldwide football family, I wish to express my deep sympathy to Iran\u2019s football society and Hajazi\u2019s fans. We stand beside them. Hopefully, his family finds solace and peace with the message,\u201d Blatter wrote in a letter sent to Ali Kaffashian, head of Iran Football Federation on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, FIFA president Sepp Blatter on Wednesday expressed condolence to Iran Football Federation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4966,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12182","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\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}