{"id":34474,"date":"2018-12-12T10:25:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T18:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34474"},"modified":"2018-12-12T10:25:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T18:25:29","slug":"irans-first-goalscorer-at-world-cup-iraj-danaeifard-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/12\/12\/irans-first-goalscorer-at-world-cup-iraj-danaeifard-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s first goalscorer at World Cup Iraj Danaeifard passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iraj Danaeifard, the scorer of the first official goal for Iran national football team in the FIFA World Cup, has died aged 67.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Danaeifard passed away of a cardiac arrest in Shiraz\u2019s Namazi Hospital on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Iraj Danaeifard was the son of Ali Danaeifard who was one of the founders of Taj SC football club (the club became known as Esteghlal in 1979).<\/p>\n<p>He was invited to the national team for the first time in 1977 and helped Team Melli qualify for 1978 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p> Danaeifard scored against Scotland, which was Iran&#8217;s first goal ever at a World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>He equalized the match in the second half and secured Iran&#8217;s first ever World Cup point, and their last for 20 years till a famous win over the United States.<\/p>\n<p>After the Asian Cup in Kuwait in 1980 he announced his retirement from international football with 17 caps and 3 goals for Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Danaeifard played for Iranian football giants Taj from 1970 to 1972. He also played for Iranian football clubs Oghab and Pas.<\/p>\n<p>In 1980, he moved to the United States and started playing for the NASL team, the Tulsa Roughnecks. He remained in the club until 1984 when the league folded.<\/p>\n<p>The Tehran Times staff offer heartfelt condolences to his bereaved family.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"1978 (June 7) Scotland 1-Iran 1 (World Cup).mpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zuerh02GylM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iraj Danaeifard, the scorer of the first official goal for Iran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,142,91,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-memory-lane","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2299,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34474","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=34474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34476,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34474\/revisions\/34476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}