{"id":12352,"date":"2011-08-13T06:03:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T13:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/08\/13\/iran-futsal-star-masoumi-dies\/"},"modified":"2011-08-13T06:03:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T13:03:36","slug":"iran-futsal-star-masoumi-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/08\/13\/iran-futsal-star-masoumi-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran futsal star Masoumi dies [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.the-afc.com\/afc\/players\/m\/300x200\/babak_masoumi_irn_3x2.jpg\" \/>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Six-time winner of AFC Futsal Championship and former Iran captain Babak Masoumi died from blood cancer on Wednesday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old, who was diagnosed with blood cancer in 2008,  played a key role in Iran\u2019s AFC Futsal Championship victories in 1999,  2000, 2003, 2004 2005 and 2007. He also played in the FIFA Futsal World  Cups in 2000 and 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Masoumi started his futsal career in 1995  from Fath Tehran before moving to Pas four years later. He joined Tam  Iran Khodro in 2006 for a year before taking to coaching.<\/p>\n<p>He coached Persepolis and Steel Azin futsal teams. He was the head coach of Dabiri Tabriz FSC at the time of his death.<\/p>\n<p>AFC Acting President Zhang Jilong has condoled the death of Masoumi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn  behalf of AFC and the Asian football family, I would like to offer my  sincere condolences to Masoumi\u2019s family, friends and the Iranian futsal  community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a great loss to Asian and Iranian  futsal in particular because during his playing days he established Iran  as a force to reckon with in the continent.\u201d<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lbo3onGWmvk\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lbo3onGWmvk<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, Six-time winner of AFC Futsal Championship and former Iran captain Babak Masoumi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c15-futsal"],"views":7013,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12352","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=12352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}