{"id":54927,"date":"2026-05-24T18:13:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T01:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=54927"},"modified":"2026-05-24T18:13:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T01:13:33","slug":"former-iran-midfielder-parviz-ghelichkhani-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/05\/24\/former-iran-midfielder-parviz-ghelichkhani-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Iran midfielder Parviz Ghelichkhani dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times -TEHRAN, <strong>Former Iran national football team midfielder Parviz Ghelichkhani died on Saturday after a long battle with illness. He was 80.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ghelichkhani was regarded as one of the greatest footballers in the history of Iran and Asia. He was a key member of Team Melli and helped Iran win three AFC Asian Cup titles in 1968, 1972, and 1976. He also won a gold medal at the 1974 Asian Games.<\/p>\n<p>At club level, Ghelichkhani helped Taj, now known as Esteghlal, win the AFC Champions League in 1970.<\/p>\n<p>He is widely considered one of the best Asian players of the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u062f\u0631\u06af\u0630\u0634\u062a \u067e\u0631\u0648\u06cc\u0632 \u0642\u0644\u06cc\u0686\u200c\u062e\u0627\u0646\u06cc\u060c \u0627\u0633\u0637\u0648\u0631\u0647 \u0641\u0648\u062a\u0628\u0627\u0644 \u0627\u06cc\u0631\u0627\u0646\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7oUTyB5LdrM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times -TEHRAN, Former Iran national football team midfielder Parviz Ghelichkhani died on Saturday after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":54928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,142,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54927","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":42,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54927","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=54927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54929,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54927\/revisions\/54929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}