{"id":54024,"date":"2025-10-27T09:01:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=54024"},"modified":"2025-10-27T09:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:01:39","slug":"former-team-melli-defender-karegarjam-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/10\/27\/former-team-melli-defender-karegarjam-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Team Melli defender Karegarjam passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Iran national team player Akbar Kargarjam, who also represented Esteghlal club, passed away on Sunday in Tehran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He died at the age of 81 at the Jam Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Kargarjam played for Iran at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He spent about a decade with Rah Ahan and Taj (now Esteghlal).<\/p>\n<p>He earned 30 caps for Team Melli and scored one goal.<\/p>\n<p>The Tehran Times extends its deepest sympathies to Kargarjam\u2019s family, loved ones, and friends during this time of loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Iran national team player Akbar Kargarjam, who also represented Esteghlal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":54025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,142,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54024","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":869,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54024","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=54024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54026,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54024\/revisions\/54026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}