{"id":45205,"date":"2022-03-08T09:27:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T17:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=45205"},"modified":"2022-03-08T09:27:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T17:27:38","slug":"former-team-melli-coach-frank-ofarrell-dies%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/03\/08\/former-team-melli-coach-frank-ofarrell-dies%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Team Melli coach Frank O&#8217;Farrell dies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; CORK, <strong>Former Iran football team coach Frank O&#8217;Farrell died at the age of 94 on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Irishman led Iran to Asian Games success in 1974, and set them on the road to Asian Cup success two years later and, ultimately, World Cup qualification in 1978.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In January 2006, O&#8217;Farrell was invited to Iran to attend a ceremony in honor of Persepolis&#8217; former players, along with Alan Rogers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former West Ham player started his coaching career at Weymouth in 1961 and also coached Leicester City, Manchester United, and Cardiff City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tehran Times extends deepest sympathy to O&#8217;Farrell\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=\"618\" height=\"361\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/EvleDVRXcAEPFY5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/EvleDVRXcAEPFY5.jpeg 618w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/EvleDVRXcAEPFY5-350x204.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/EvleDVRXcAEPFY5-150x88.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; CORK, Former Iran football team coach Frank O&#8217;Farrell died at the age&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":45207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,92,91,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":898,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45205","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=45205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45209,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45205\/revisions\/45209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}