{"id":10173,"date":"2018-01-04T18:37:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T09:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=10173"},"modified":"2018-01-04T18:37:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T09:37:26","slug":"iraqs-legendary-striker-ali-kadhim-dies-aged-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/01\/04\/iraqs-legendary-striker-ali-kadhim-dies-aged-69\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq&#8217;s legendary striker Ali Kadhim dies aged 69"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq&#8217;s legendary footballer Ali Kadhim has died at the age of 69,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/iraqs-legendary-footballer-ali-kadhim-dead-at-69\/1021077\">Anadolu Agency reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kadhim passed away on Tuesday at a hospital in Baghdad after a long battle with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Kadhim\u00a0ranked fourth among the <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/06\/02\/iraq-jordan-international-friendly\/\">Iraqi national team<\/a>&#8216;s top scorers with 35 goals. Previously, he had held Iraq&#8217;s goal record with 35 goals in his time, until Hussein Saeed broke it in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0legendary striker represented Iraq in\u00a0the 1972 AFC Asian Cup &amp; 1976 AFC Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p>He was also featured in the Iraqi national team, who reached the quarterfinals in the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq&#8217;s legendary footballer Ali Kadhim has died at the age of 69,\u00a0Anadolu Agency reports. Kadhim passed away on Tuesday at a hospital in Baghdad after a long battle with cancer. Kadhim\u00a0ranked fourth among the Iraqi national team&#8216;s top scorers with 35 goals. Previously, he had held Iraq&#8217;s goal record with 35 goals in his time, until Hussein Saeed broke it in 1982. The\u00a0legendary striker represented Iraq in\u00a0the 1972 AFC Asian Cup &amp; 1976 AFC Asian Cup. He was also featured in the Iraqi national team, who reached the quarterfinals in the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":10174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[415,95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}