{"id":43118,"date":"2021-08-07T06:49:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T13:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43118"},"modified":"2021-08-07T06:49:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T13:49:03","slug":"former-iran-midfielder-alireza-azizi-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/08\/07\/former-iran-midfielder-alireza-azizi-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Iran midfielder Alireza Azizi passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Iran and Persepolis football team midfielder Alireza Azizi passed away on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He lost his battle with cancer at the age of 72 in Tehran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Azizi was a member of the Iran national football team who won the 1976 AFC Asian Cup title in Tehran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Abadan-born player started his club career in 1972 with Homa and joined Persepolis after three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tehran Times extends deepest sympathy to Azizi\u2019s family, loved ones, and friends over his demise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"444\" height=\"535\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_2020-06-07_23-27-40.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_2020-06-07_23-27-40.jpeg 444w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_2020-06-07_23-27-40-290x350.jpeg 290w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/photo_2020-06-07_23-27-40-83x100.jpeg 83w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Iran and Persepolis football team midfielder Alireza Azizi passed away&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":43120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,142,91,172,93,86,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-memory-lane","category-c20-other-news","category-persepolis","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-uncategorized"],"views":963,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43118","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=43118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43121,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43118\/revisions\/43121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}