{"id":48169,"date":"2023-02-10T08:54:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T16:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=48169"},"modified":"2023-02-10T08:54:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T16:54:22","slug":"former-iran-coach-miroslav-blazevic-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/02\/10\/former-iran-coach-miroslav-blazevic-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Iran coach Miroslav Blazevic passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZAGREB, <strong>Miroslav \u201cCiro\u201d Blazevic lost his battle with prostate cancer on Wednesday, two days before his 88th birthday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His family and friends said Blazevic died at a Zagreb hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201ccoach of all coaches,\u201d as he was known in his home country of Croatia, led four national teams and several domestic and foreign clubs during his career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He led Croatia to a third place finish at the 1998 World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He took charge of Iran coach midway through the 2002 World Cup qualification process but failed to book a place in the Finals after losing to Ireland Republic 2-1 on aggregate. The defeat that marked the end of Blazevic&#8217;s time in Iran as his assistant Branko Ivankovic took over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ivankovic, his disciple, won a gold medal with Iran U23 in the 2002 Asian Games and claimed a bronze with Team Melli in the 2004 AFC Asian Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Legendary Blazevic introduced new players to Iran football such as Rahman Rezaei, Javad Nekounam, and Ebrahim Mirzapour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May he rest in peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZAGREB, Miroslav \u201cCiro\u201d Blazevic lost his battle with prostate cancer on Wednesday,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":48170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,142,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48169","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-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1799,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48169","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=48169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48171,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48169\/revisions\/48171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}