{"id":41023,"date":"2020-11-27T20:44:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T04:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=41023"},"modified":"2020-11-27T20:44:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T04:44:11","slug":"former-team-melli-captains-react-to-passing-of-diego-maradona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/11\/27\/former-team-melli-captains-react-to-passing-of-diego-maradona\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Team Melli captains react to passing of Diego Maradona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Three Iranian football legends shared their reactions to the death of Argentina football star Diego Maradona.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maradona, who captained Argentina to victory in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, passed away at the age of 60 due to a heart attack at his home on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former captains of Iran national football team reacted on Instagram to the death of the Argentine football legend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMaradona was a football phenomenon on the field,\u201d Al Daei, who holds the record of the all-time men&#8217;s international top goalscorer, wrote on his Instagram account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ali Karimi, known as the &#8220;Maradona of Asia&#8221; for his dribbling skills, paid his respects to the football legendary, posting a message on his Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere will be no other player like you,\u201d Karimi wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ex-Iran legendary goalkeeper Ahmadreza Abedzadeh, dubbed the Eagle of Asia, also posted a message on Instagram, writing: \u201cWorld star Diego Maradona died.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Three Iranian football legends shared their reactions to the death of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":41024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,142,91,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41023","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"],"views":905,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41023","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=41023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41025,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41023\/revisions\/41025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}