{"id":16687,"date":"2013-12-22T12:59:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T20:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=16687"},"modified":"2013-12-22T12:59:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T20:59:31","slug":"afc-president-pays-tributes-to-iranian-legend-jeddikar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/12\/22\/afc-president-pays-tributes-to-iranian-legend-jeddikar\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC President pays tributes to Iranian legend Jeddikar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>AFC President Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa paid tributes to Iranian legend B\u00fcy\u00fck Jeddikar saying he was the face of Asian football at the world stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jeddikar, who was the first Iranian footballer to be transferred from an Iranian club to a foreign club, passed away recently at the age of 84.<\/p>\n<p>The AFC President said he was saddened with the news of his demise adding that Jeddikar will be remembered as one of the top strikers Iran has produced.<\/p>\n<p>His short stint in Europe showed that Asia has talent and it has grown ever since, Shaikh Salman added.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of the Asian football family, the AFC President has offered his sincere condolences to the stakeholders of Iranian football, family and friends of this legendary footballer.<\/p>\n<p>Jeddikar also played for the Iran national side for 15 years from 1950 to 1965.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, AFC President Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa paid tributes to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25049,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":2948,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16687","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\/25049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}