{"id":26375,"date":"2016-10-26T11:53:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T18:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26375"},"modified":"2016-10-26T11:53:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T18:53:56","slug":"statue-of-esteghlal-legend-pourheydari-to-be-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/10\/26\/statue-of-esteghlal-legend-pourheydari-to-be-built\/","title":{"rendered":"Statue of Esteghlal legend Pourheydari to be built"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal legend Mansour Pourheydari will be immortalized with his own statue, the Iranian club announced.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pourheydari, who is battling with diabetes, is a member of board of the directors of Esteghlal at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>He began his football career at the age of 17 in Daraei but was transferred to Taj (now Esteghlal) in 1965 and played as a right defender for 10 years and won the Asian Championship in 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Pourheydari also played for Iran national football team and made three caps for Team Melli. He announced his retirement in 1977.<\/p>\n<p>He began his managerial career in 1980 as assistant coach to Abbas Razavi and Asghar Sharafi.<\/p>\n<p>He was promoted as the club&#8217;s head coach in 1983 after the resignation of Sharafi.<\/p>\n<p>Pourheydari led Esteghlal to its second Asian trophy in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>The coach has also coached Fajr Sepasi and Sanat Naft in Iranian football league.<\/p>\n<p>Pourheydari became head coach of Iran national football team in 1998 and inspired the team to win the Asian Games in Bangkok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal legend Mansour Pourheydari will be immortalized with his own statue,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136,142,91,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26375","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"],"views":1820,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26375","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=26375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}