Hassan Habibi, the first head coach of Iran's national football team after the 1957 revolution, has died.

Hassan Habibi, the first head coach of Iran's national football team after the 1957 revolution, has died.

Hassan Habibi, the first head coach of Iran's national soccer team after the 1357 revolution, and one of Iran's oldest soccer players, died on Monday, November 2.

Habibi, who was born in Kerman on the 18th of Bahman 1318, died on Monday night at the age of 86 in a hospital in Tehran.

🔸 He had a history of playing for the teams Shaheen Tehran, Astagalal and Fas Tehran, and officially retired from playing on the football field in February 1349.

The Esteghlal national team wrote about him in its account on Channel X: "This veteran player discovered more than a dozen great talents in Iranian football, many of whom are present today in the technical staff of the Iranian national teams and clubs."