Hassan Habibi, a famous Iranian soccer player, died at the age of 86 in a hospital in Tehran.

Hassan Habibi, a famous Iranian soccer player, died at the age of 86 in a hospital in Tehran.

Hassan Habibi was born in 1318 in Kerman. He was the captain of the Iranian national team in the Asian Cup in 1968/1347, during which Iran became the Asian champion in Tehran.

Hassan Habibi had a history of playing for the Shaheen, Taj (Estiklal) and Pas Tehran teams and was named Iran's Football Man of the Year in 1348.

After saying goodbye to football, he entered the field of coaching, and under his head coach, Fas Tehran won the Takht Jamshid Cup twice.

Hassan Habibi was the first official head coach of the national team after the 1957 revolution and led the Iranian national football team to the Moscow Olympics in 1980, although the Salami Republic sanctioned those competitions and did not participate in the Olympics due to the Soviet ground attack on Afghanistan at the time.

He coached many battalions and his name is recorded as one of the enduring faces of Iranian football. The death of this Iranian sports legend happened just one day after the death of Hamid Alidosti, another famous Iranian soccer player, which was accompanied by a wide reaction from the sports community in this country.