{"id":29718,"date":"2017-11-10T13:52:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T21:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29718"},"modified":"2017-11-10T13:52:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T21:52:13","slug":"ex-team-melli-striker-akbar-eftekhari-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/11\/10\/ex-team-melli-striker-akbar-eftekhari-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Team Melli striker Akbar Eftekhari passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Iran national football team striker Akbar Eftekhari passed away on Thursday after a long battle with the disease.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eftekhari died at the age of 73 in Tehran\u2019s Ebne Sina Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Eftekhari stated his professional playing career at Iranian football club Daraei in 1962 and played at the Tehran-based club for six years before joining Taj (known as Esteghlal).<\/p>\n<p>Eftekhari was called up to Team Melli and was a member of the team who won the 1968 AFC Asian Cup. He was also selected as the Most Valuable Player (MVP) in the competition which was held in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Eftekhari joined Esteghlal arch rivals Persepolis and his career came to an end in the Iranian giant.  <\/p>\n<p>He will be laid to rest in Tehran&#8217;s Behesht Zahra Cemetery on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran Times staff wish to express deepest sympathy and condolences to his family and Iran\u2019s football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Iran national football team striker Akbar Eftekhari passed away on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136,142,91,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29718","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"],"views":1928,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29718","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=29718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}