Hassan Habibi, the former head coach of Iran’s national football team, said goodbye to Darfani after several years of illness.
Hassan Habibi was born in 1318 and although he was born in Kerman, he settled in Chaharseddastgah neighborhood after his father moved to Tehran. During his acting career, he played for Shahin and Taj, and after the formation of Pas Tehran because he was a student of the Police College, he joined this team and he is remembered as one of the founders of Sabzeposhan in the capital. Of course, his separation from Shaheen and his move to the Taj in the early forties caused a lot of noise.
Hassan Habibi was one of our national team members in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and together with the Iranian national team in the 1968 Tehran Nations Cup, he won the championship title for the first time.
Professor Hassan Habibi started coaching at the beginning of the 1950s and became the champion of the Takht Jamshid Cup. He was the first head coach of the Iranian national team after the revolution and led us to the 1980 Olympics. Of course, we did not participate in the finals. Habibi also finished third with the Iranian national team in the 1980 Kuwait Nations Cup, and in the 1992 Barcelona 1996 Atlanta Olympic qualifiers, he was also in charge of Omid’s team, but he did not achieve success.
He was the head coach of Ararat for many years and turned this team into one of Tehran’s football poles. Habibi also had a working experience in Shiraz and Esteghlal Ahwaz. Nasser Hijazi, Ali Parveen, Hamid Alidousti, Hassan Roshan, Behnash Fariba, Iraj Danaeifard, Mohammad Sadeghi, Hossein Gazrani, Ibrahim Qasimpour, Khodadad Azizi, Afshin Pirovani, Yahya Golmohammadi, Karim Bagheri, Mehdi Pashazadeh, Nima Nakisa, Edmund Bezik, Dariush Yazdani, Reza Shahroudi and Mehrdad Minavand are among his students in Iranian football.
Hassan Habibi’s farewell game in the presence of the legend of English football
On 18 Bahman 1349, Hassan Habibi said goodbye to national football forever during a meeting between the players of the national teams of previous years and the youth of Tehran at Amjadiyeh Stadium, and the point is that Stanley Matthews, one of the legends of English football and the winner of the first European Ballon d’Or, who came to Iran from England to hold a training class and a symbolic visit, attended this meeting and assumed the captaincy of the selected youth team.
May his soul be happy and his memory cherished.
You may not have seen: The emotional video of the last recorded smile of Alidosti in the dressing room/ on the shoulder of the players with Hamidkhan Hamidkhan’s cry.
