[custom_adv] Nasser Hejazi ( 14 December 1949 – 23 May 2011), nicknamed "the legendary goalkeeper", was a football player and coach who most notably played for Esteghlal Tehran FC (Taj). [custom_adv] Considered as the best goalkeeper in the history of Iranian football and Asia, he was capped 62 times for the Iran national football team. In 2000, the Asian Football Confederation ranked him the second best Asian goalkeeper of the 20th century. [custom_adv] He was goalkeeper national team in the 1960s and 1970s and won the AFC Asian Cup on two occasions in 1972 and 1976, and Asian Games title once, and competed in the 1972 Munich Olympics and 1976 Montreal Olympics and 1978 FIFA World Cup. [custom_adv] As a Manager, he won an Azadegan League in 1998 and a Bangladesh League in 1988, as well as a runner-up place in AFC Champions League in 1999. [custom_adv] Hejazi was born on 14 December 1949. His father, Ali Akbar had a real estate agency and was an Azerbaijani from Tabriz. [custom_adv] He was admitted to Allameh Tabatabai University in 1977. [custom_adv] He was later enrolled in Nader F.C. in 1964 and played for club until 1965. After that, he signed a contract with Taj Tehran and started his career in a professional club. [custom_adv] He was the captain of the national team during the 1980 Asian Cup and played his last match for in the semi-final match versus Kuwait. [custom_adv] After the tournament, a member of Physical Education Department implemented a policy in which athletes older than 27 years of age would no longer be allowed to compete internationally.
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