{"id":26450,"date":"2016-11-04T14:08:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T21:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26450"},"modified":"2016-11-04T14:08:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T21:08:44","slug":"esteghlal-legend-pourheydari-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/11\/04\/esteghlal-legend-pourheydari-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal legend Pourheydari dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal legend Mansour Pourheydari passed away at age of 70 on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He died after a one-year battle with lung disease in Tehran\u2019s Iranmehr Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Pourheydari was a member of board of the directors of Esteghlal football club.<\/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.<br \/>\nHe 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 passed away at age of 70 on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,142,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-memory-lane","category-c20-other-news"],"views":2059,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26450","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=26450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}