According to the news agency Online news According to Asr Iran – Amir Hassan Khadir: Hassan Habibi also went. The great pioneer of Iranian national football and Taj clubs [استقلال] and pass Of course, the media considered him to be the only pioneer of the Pas team, while he first became a star in Taj, but due to the law of Khalq al-Saa’i and Qizb in 1342, which has remained in place until now, he was forced to leave Taj and transfer to Pas.
That rule was that a military player should not play for a civilian team. Therefore, he, who along with his brothers Manouchehr and Gudrez Habibi, as well as Heshmat Mohajerani and Mohammad Ranjbar, joined Taj in 1338 and took the place of great players such as Buyuk Jadikar, Parviz Kozekanani, Mahmoud Biatifar and Arif Qolizadeh.
Besides, all of them, except for Heshmat Mohajerani, became Taj (Estiklal) coaches for a period of time, and this was a sign of their roots; Because there is a strange custom in Iran that an Iranian player who has no history of wearing the shirt of Esteghlal or Persepolis cannot become the coach of these two teams.
In today’s world football, however, this is not the case as we saw Carlo Angelotti in both Juventus and Milan. Also, Antonio Conte, all the honors of his playing days were in Juventus, but he also went to the long-time rival team – Inter – and many other examples. We have had rogue players here, but not a rogue head coach!
The main position of Hasan Agha Habibi during his playing days was the center midfielder, which we know today as Yarkob’s defense, and he is undoubtedly one of the best in the history of Iranian football, with the least fluctuation because he always played at the same level.
He was a member of Taj in 1341 and was selected for the Iranian national team at the age of 23. The golden year when we qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in 1964. At that time, adults participated in the Olympics, and the under-23-year-old rule and “Hope” did not apply, and Habibii played consistently in all three games against East Germany, Romania, and Mexico, which we tied with.
One of the noteworthy events is that the result of intellectual differences between Hossein Fakhri and Dr. Ikrami, the head of the Shahin club, was that 6 invited players of the Shahin team, namely Hamid Shirzadegan, Homayun Behzadi, Hamid Jasmian, Parviz Dehdari, Buyuk Watankhah and Nader Latifi, were banned from the national team, and a fatal blow was dealt to that dream team.
Of course, Hossein Fakhri’s hand was not empty for replacement and Iran’s football fountain was so hot that instead of them, Parviz Qalichkhani played his first national game in Tokyo and invited Karam Nirlu and Dariush Mostafavi from Tehranjovan.
The captain was also Hassan Habibi’s side player: Mohammad Ranjber. Two years later, when the differences were resolved, Iran defeated Japan twice in the preliminary and semi-finals at the 1966 Asian Games in Bangkok. But they lost against Burma and finished second. In the final, Hassan Habibi’s partner in defense was his brother Gouders, and this was the beginning of Iran’s dream years.
next [از] With Ranjbar’s farewell, Hassan Habibi became the captain and in the final match of the 1968 Asian Nations Cup in Tehran, they made one of the most memorable nights in the history of Iranian football and defeated Israel 1-2.
First, they tied with Homayoun Behzadi’s goal, and they won the game with a beautiful shot by Parviz Qalichkhani only 4 minutes before the end. This was the first championship in all age categories for Iranian football. Before that, we had not been higher than second. So Habibi has the eternal honor of being the first captain in the history of Iran who has lifted the trophy. The headline of tomorrow’s newspaper, which may be pleasant even now: “The conquest of Tel Aviv by the defense chief”. Below is the photo of Hassan Habibi with the cup above his head.
This sentence, which is now famous, was first said by Hassan Habibi: First, don’t let the ball pass. Passed, the attacker should not be passed, even with his head in front of the ball.
Since we are talking about the firsts, it is also mentioned that he was the first Iranian to shake hands with Pele as captain. In the selected match of Taj and Pass (with the selected name of Tehran) against Santos of Brazil.
Because the national team coached by Mohammad Ranjber was in East Asia to participate in the Munich Olympics and the Asian Nations Cup in Bangkok, and 7 Taj players had gone with the national team; Khosravani invited pass players with a history of wearing the Taj shirt to hold this ceremonial but important game because of Pele’s presence in 1351.
Habibi was also the first captain who became the head coach at the same time in the last year of the game. At the end of that season, in November 1349, Habibi retired from football at the age of 31. Stanley Mathews, winner of the first European Ballon d’Or and former captain of England, played in honor of Habibi in Tehran’s youth team against the national team for the farewell game, so that the sweet memory of the farewell game will last for him. The interesting point of that game was Parviz Qalichkhani’s beautiful open goal and a shot similar to the shot of Israel’s game; Qalichkhani always made good memories for his old friend.
He won many honors with the crown and pass and the national team; But after leaving the game and with the renaissance of the Kambiz Atabai Federation in 1351, when he was the head coach, he participated in the coaching course of Detmar Kramer, the famous German head coach and FIFA instructor who came to Iran from different countries, and with an excellent score, he received the FIFA “A” level badge as the first student among European, Asian and Iranian coaches. Again, it was the first.
The rest of the Iranian coaches got a “B” grade, which of course was also a success. Coaches such as: Mahmoud Yavari, Nasser Ebrahimi, Fereydoun Asgarzadeh and Ahmed Khodadad who delivered many players to Iranian football.
The Takht Jamshid Cup was held 6 times as the first professional league of Iran, and of course, the sixth time was half-finished due to the revolution.
Out of 5 rounds, it was won twice by Habibi with a pass, twice by Persepolis and once by Taj. In the sixth cup, Pas Habibi’s team was at the top, which, as mentioned, remained incomplete.
After that and during the revolution, Habibi did something that was done for the first time by a head coach with his honors and said I don’t want to go to class anymore, I want to see how to practice. Therefore, the team handed over the pass to his friend – Homayun Shahrokhi – and went to Liverpool himself, and by presenting his resume, he was allowed to take notes on the half-season training of Bob Heisley, the famous coach of Liverpool.
The first effect was to become the head coach of the Iranian national team. He led the team to the Moscow Olympics, although the team was not sent to Moscow because Iran boycotted the Moscow Olympics for political reasons. Then he prepared the Iranian team to participate in the 1980 Kuwait Nations Cup (October 1359), but it coincided with the start of the Iran-Iraq war.
On the very first day of the war, Hassan Roshan’s brother was martyred, and Abdolreza Barzegari was worried about his family in Khuzestan, and the team was in the mood to get news of the war, and yet they finished third, which was not an insignificant situation.
He didn’t grumble and didn’t make excuses, but misfortunes outside of his will were definitely painful. One of the other misfortunes is that when he became the head coach of Omid Iran to qualify for the Olympics, a large number of players were not allowed to leave due to military service, and he lost to Qatar 0-2 with an incomplete team of 13 players. He went close to promotion, but where even a draw was enough, he lost to Emirates 1-0 and the Olympic dream did not come true.
However, the players of his team that he chose later became the stars of Iran: Khodadad Azizi, Yahya Golmohammadi, Afshin Pirovani, Nima Nakisa, Mehrdad Minavand, Mehdi Mahdavikia…
The most important effect of Habibi’s international experience was to bring a specialized bodybuilder to the team, and this was done for the first time.
Bullying players such as Majid Helvai (with a history of winning the Asian Nations Cup), Mohsen Hoshangi (with a history of winning the Asian Games in Tehran) and Hossein Kazrani (with a history of the 1978 World Cup as a fixed member of the national team) were all products of Hassan Habibi’s thinking. He was the first Iranian coach who gave special importance to bodybuilding. Iran’s foreign football coaches such as Raykov and Alan Rogers also had such a view.
One of the lasting works of Hassan Habibi, which made him popular among the Armenians of Tehran, was the reconstruction of the Ararat team and their victory against Persepolis. […]. With Ararat, he introduced stars such as Markar Aghajanian, Makar Narsisian, Vigen Zinli, Masis Hakopian and Fred Malekian to Iranian football, and in the dream match of July 1970, they won Persepolis 1-0 with Masis Hakopian’s goal. Let’s remember that at that time, even if Persepolis tied, the players did not dare to look at Ali Parvin’s face, let alone lose!
It is a rare event that he made Esteghlal the champion of Tehran clubs in 1964. They defeated Shaheen in penalty kicks and became champions. But he refused to sit on the bench and after that game and success, he left Esteghlal and never said the reason in any interview.
In the description of his characteristics, it can be said that while paying much attention to discipline, he valued ethics and honesty. He was a soldier, but he did not have a strong military spirit, and he was flexible at the right time.
When he was the head coach of the national team, it was not possible to play a preparatory game due to Iran’s conditions. But he did not despair and held an intra-team game and formed two red and green teams and played together.
[…] Hassan Habibi, with these special honors, was not a fan of controversial interviews and refused numerous television requests. When he felt that he had done his work and completed his duty, he would sit on the sidelines and watch.
He seemed to believe the poet’s words from the bottom of his heart Being human was the embodiment of duty And in all circumstances, he was busy doing his duty to the best of his ability.
The man was the first and opens the paths and does not stay behind barriers and walls. He was dutiful and committed, but what should be left of a person except his good name, which we have briefly described?
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