{"id":24035,"date":"2016-01-18T19:50:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T03:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24035"},"modified":"2016-01-18T19:50:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T03:50:07","slug":"veteran-player-coach-reza-ahadi-passes-away-at-53-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/01\/18\/veteran-player-coach-reza-ahadi-passes-away-at-53-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran player, coach Reza Ahadi passes away at 53 [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PressTV &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Iranian soccer player and coach Reza Naddaf Ahadi has lost a bravely fought battle with an acute liver failure and passed way at the age of 53.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Naddaf Ahadi, who was born on November 30, 1962, in the Iranian capital, died at Iran Mehr Hospital in the northern part of Tehran on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>He was admitted to hospital with a severe lung infection and later developed a liver disorder, which sent him into coma.<\/p>\n<p>Naddaf Ahadi was praised for his creativity and bursts of acceleration and referred to Iran\u2019s Rudi V\u00f6ller, a former German international soccer player, and a former manager of the German national football team. He won the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Milan, Italy, as a player. <\/p>\n<p>Naddaf Ahadi started his career with Tehran-based Rah Ahan Yazdan Football Club and featured regularly for the side from 1980 to 1984.<\/p>\n<p>He then moved to Esteghlal Tehran Football Club and played for the Blues for two years.<\/p>\n<p>Later on, Naddaf Ahadi signed a two-year deal with German football club Rot-Weiss Essen. He returned to Esteghlal Tehran in 1987 and ended his link three years later.<\/p>\n<p>He was a member of the Iran national soccer team, better known as Team Melli, from 1982 to 1984. He had 13 international caps and scored two goals for Team Melli.<\/p>\n<p>Naddaf Ahadi managed Esteghlal B team, Esteghlal Ahvaz, Aboomoslem, Shahdari Zanjan, Kowsar Lorestan, Paykan and Payam Mashhad soccer teams from 2001 to 2011, when he retired.<\/p>\n<p>He introduced a number of Iranian players, including Vahid Talebloo, Khosro Heydari and Andranik Teymourian, to professional soccer. Teymourian now dons the captain\u2019s armband in Team Melli.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3KzKeWa7wXg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3KzKeWa7wXg<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PressTV &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Iranian soccer player and coach Reza Naddaf Ahadi has lost a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":24036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136,142,91,93,86,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-memory-lane","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-uncategorized"],"views":3125,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24035","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}