{"id":2993,"date":"2025-02-12T13:27:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T11:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2025-02-12T13:29:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T11:29:36","slug":"2993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=2993","title":{"rendered":"Passing of Ali Gagarin, Captain of Sudan&#8217;s National Team in the 1970s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Al-Wadi: Arop Jongchol<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Haidar Hassan Haj Al-Siddiq, famously known as <strong>Ali Gagarin<\/strong>, the historic captain and top scorer of Sudan\u2019s national football team, passed away this morning in a hospital in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, after a long battle with illness. He was 80 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"179\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/476930397_9353422741368093_3550042564776214185_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2995\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The late Ali Gagarin had a distinguished career in diplomacy, serving as Sudan\u2019s ambassador in several African countries. He was part of the golden generation that achieved a historic victory by winning the <strong>1970 Africa Cup of Nations<\/strong>, which was held in Khartoum, securing the title for the <strong>Sudan Falcons<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He gained widespread fame as a player for <strong>Al-Hilal SC (Sudan)<\/strong>, <strong>Al-Nassr FC (Saudi Arabia)<\/strong>, and <strong>Stade d&#8217;Abidjan (Ivory Coast)<\/strong>. During the 1970s, he was nicknamed <strong>&#8220;The Flaming Spear&#8221;<\/strong> for his decisive goals in all matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, Dr. Ali Gagarin held several leadership positions within the board of <strong>Al-Hilal SC Sudan<\/strong> at different times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Wadi: Arop Jongchol Dr. Haidar Hassan Haj Al-Siddiq, famously known as Ali Gagarin, the historic captain and top scorer of Sudan\u2019s national football team, passed away this morning in a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2998,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions\/2998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}