{"id":53695,"date":"2025-08-02T13:37:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T20:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=53695"},"modified":"2025-08-02T13:37:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T20:37:50","slug":"former-ffiri-chief-dariush-mostafavi-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/08\/02\/former-ffiri-chief-dariush-mostafavi-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Former FFIRI chief Dariush Mostafavi dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Dariush Mostafavi, former president of the Iran Football Federation, passed away Friday night.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He died at the age of 81 in Tehran due to pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Mostafavi played for Iranian clubs Taj and Persepolis, and also represented the Iran national football team from 1994 to 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Under his leadership, Team Melli qualified for the 1998 World Cup in France \u2014 the first qualification since 1978.<\/p>\n<p>He was also appointed as the general manager of Persepolis in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The Tehran Times extends its deepest sympathies to Mostafavi\u2019s family, loved ones, and friends during this time of loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Dariush Mostafavi, former president of the Iran Football Federation, passed away&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":53696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,142,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53695","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":1422,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53695","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=53695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53697,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53695\/revisions\/53697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}