{"id":35156,"date":"2019-01-23T09:50:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T17:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35156"},"modified":"2019-01-23T09:50:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T17:50:55","slug":"former-team-melli-keeper-amir-aghahosseini-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/23\/former-team-melli-keeper-amir-aghahosseini-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Team Melli keeper Amir Aghahosseini passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Iran national football team and Shahin club Amir Aghahosseini has died at the age of 88 on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aghahosseini was a member of Iran national football team who won the silver medal at the 1951 Asian Games in New Delhi, India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the age of 19, he saved Japan\u2019s penalty in the Games\u2019 semis and Team Melli qualified for the final, where they lost to hosts India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aghahosseini was a member of Tehran based football club Shahin from 1948 to 1955.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An accident left him blind in one eye, but he was playing in Shahin for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also represented Team Melli five times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tehran Times staff offer heartfelt condolences to his bereaved family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Iran national football team and Shahin club Amir Aghahosseini has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,142,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-memory-lane","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":721,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35156","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=35156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35158,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35156\/revisions\/35158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}