{"id":34554,"date":"2018-12-19T08:24:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T16:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34554"},"modified":"2018-12-19T08:24:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T16:24:22","slug":"infantino-offers-condolence-over-death-of-iraj-danaeifard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/12\/19\/infantino-offers-condolence-over-death-of-iraj-danaeifard\/","title":{"rendered":"Infantino offers condolence over death of Iraj Danaeifard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZURICH, <strong>FIFA President Gianni Infantino extends his deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Iranian football player Iraj Danaeifard who passed away last week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Danaeifard died of a cardiac arrest in Shiraz\u2019s Namazi Hospital at the age of 67.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish to extend my deepest sympathy to Danaeifard\u2019s family and Iranian football fans. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family,\u201d said Infantino in a letter to Iran Football Federation President Mehdi Taj.<\/p>\n<p>Danaeifard was the scorer of the first official goal for Iran national football team in the FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>He scored against Scotland at the 1978 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Danaeifard 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZURICH, FIFA President Gianni Infantino extends his deepest sympathies to the family&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,142,91,93,86,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-memory-lane","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-uncategorized"],"views":718,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34554","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=34554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34556,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34554\/revisions\/34556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}