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دیروز عصر با پسر عمه محترم ایشان که در فرانسه اقامت دارند صحبت کردیم،گفتند در حالشان هیچ تغییری صورت نگرفته است،نه بهتر شده اند نه بدتر ! وضعیت ایشان ثابت است،۲۴ ساعت تحت نظر دکتران هستند.

از خداوند میخواهیم که به ایشان سلامتی دهند ناصر خان هر چه زودتر به خانه بازگردند.

ما هم از دوران نوجوانی،از همان هنگامی که عضو باشگاه بودیم آماتوری تنیس فوتبال بازی میکردیم..طرفدار ایشان بوده ایم هستیم خواهیم بود.

عصر‌ها گاهی‌ به دزاشیب که میامدند.. منطقه غلغله شده دیگر امکان نداشت که ناصر خان به سر تمرین خود بازگردد،یک عدد پوستر خودشان را که آن زمان در مجله وزین اطلاعات ورزشی چاپ شده بود،امضا کردند که ما آنرا در اتاق خودمان داشتیم..آن هم حتما دیگر از بین رفته است :( .

برای ایشان دعا می‌کنیم قلبمان با ایشان و خانواده محترم ایشان است.

Hejazi, My Childhood Idol!

Thanks Tapesh for your post and updates about my childhood idol Nasser Hejazi. It pains me to see him on a hospital bed battling cancer. I hope that he pulls through.

This tall and handsome athlete was more than a great goalie (the best in Asia in the 70’s). He was and still is a bigger than life icon, a rock star! He was very humble, charming and had a great sense of style. He was the first goalie in Iran that wore colorful and stripped shirts. I and a bunch of other kids my age would stand outside the lockers at Amjadieh stadium before the matches trying to get a glimpse of him as he arrived, and he always politely waived and smiled.

He practiced with Manchester United for a month back in 78 and met its current coach Sir Alex Ferguson (one of the top coaches in the world today.) Last year he sent him an unexpected get well letter and last week he did the same. Here is Hejazi’s reply.

“To Sir Alex Ferguson CBE
Dear Sir,
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
I received your letter of kindness in a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Being in your thoughts and prayers is conforting me and keeps me going. I thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom.
For your concern
"I can no other answer make, but, thanks"
Love. N. Hejazi”

Every week there were great pictures of him and his girlfriend Behnaz in Iranian weeklies like Zan e Rooz and Javanan. They looked so great together. Here is a romantic, heart warming and very nostalgic narrative that his wife wrote about them recently. It captures the romantic mood of the pre-revolutionary Iran.

//www.nasserhejazi.ir/web/guest/home?p_p_id=6...

Fans of famous Iranian

Fans of famous Iranian goalkeeper and ex member of national football team Naser Hejazi visit him in hospital in Tehran .

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_q_2DY_J1M

My prayers are with him.

My prayers are with him. Greatest Iranian goalie...

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my thoughts are with him.  as a perspolis fan, i always liked hejazi, the best iranian goalkeeper ever.