{"id":24111,"date":"2016-01-22T16:07:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T00:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24111"},"modified":"2016-01-22T16:07:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T00:07:46","slug":"former-iran-striker-homayoun-behzadi-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/01\/22\/former-iran-striker-homayoun-behzadi-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Iran striker Homayoun Behzadi passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Iran national team and Persepolis football club striker Homayoun Behzadi died on Friday morning. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Behzadi died at age 73 at home after losing his battle with lung disease. <\/p>\n<p>He will be laid to rest on Wednesday in Tehran&#8217;s Behesht-e Zahra cemetery. <\/p>\n<p>Behzadi started his playing career at Shahin in 1958 and joined Paykan after seven years. <\/p>\n<p>In 1968, Behzadi joined Persepolis and announced his retirement in Tehran based club in 1975. <\/p>\n<p>Behzadi was named as one of the members of Persepolis Hall of Fame and the club thanked him for his great performance during his senior career at the popular club. <\/p>\n<p>He was named as one of the twelve great players of Persepolis in the 1970s. <\/p>\n<p>Behzadi won the Asian Nations Cup with Iran football team in 1968 and 1972. <\/p>\n<p>He won 35 caps for Team Iran and scored 13 goals. <\/p>\n<p>Tehran Times offers its heartfelt condolence to his bereaved family <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Iran national team and Persepolis football club striker Homayoun Behzadi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":24112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,142,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-memory-lane","category-c20-other-news"],"views":2457,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24111","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=24111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}