{"id":12356,"date":"2011-08-17T19:18:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T02:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/08\/17\/late-nasser-hejazi-remembered\/"},"modified":"2011-08-17T19:18:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T02:18:35","slug":"late-nasser-hejazi-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/08\/17\/late-nasser-hejazi-remembered\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Nasser Hejazi remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mehrnews.com\/mehr_media\/image\/2011\/08\/681076_orig.jpg\" height=\"230\" width=\"345\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran\u2019s legendary goalkeeper Nasser Hejazi, who died in May this year, was remembered on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hejazi died at age of 61 due to lung cancer. The Iranian football officials attended the ceremony held at the Rah Ahan Club in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHejazi will remain alive in our hearts and minds forever. I learned many lessons from him. If it was not for him I would not be here today,\u201d the world&#8217;s all-time leading international goalscorer, Ali Daei, said.<\/p>\n<p>Hejazi played for Iran football team 62 times from 1968 to 1980. He appeared as goalkeeper in the 1972 Olympics in Munich and in 1976 in Montreal. Hejazi also was a member of Iran&#8217;s World Cup team in 1978 in Argentina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran\u2019s legendary goalkeeper Nasser Hejazi, who died in May this year, was&#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-12356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3959,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12356","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=12356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}