{"id":10751,"date":"2021-08-22T12:16:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T06:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=140592"},"modified":"2021-08-22T12:18:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T06:48:11","slug":"indian-former-olympic-footballer-and-fifa-refree-syed-shahid-hakim-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/indian-former-olympic-footballer-and-fifa-refree-syed-shahid-hakim-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Indian Olympic footballer and FIFA referee Syed Shahid Hakim passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Olympic footballer and FIFA referee Syed Shahid Hakim passed away at the age of 82 on Sunday. He was regarded as one of India\u2019s best coaches. He represented India in the 1960 Olympics in the football games. He also helped India finish 6th place in the 1960 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Syed Shahid Hakim was a central defender in his playing career. The Hyderabadi defender also turned into the referee and officiated many matches, including Qatar\u2019s 1988 AFC Asian Cup. The Son of a legendary football coach S.A. Rahim had a cardiac arrest and was admitted to a private hospital. The news of him passing away was out on Sunday morning. Syed Shahid Hakim\u2019s wife, Sadia Syeda informed the media after this incident happened.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A big loss to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IndianFootball?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IndianFootball<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Former Olympian, FIFA Referee, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Media_SAI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Media_SAI<\/a> Director, Coach M&M, Sq Ldr SS Hakim left for his heavenly abode.<\/p>\n<p>Hakim saheb did spend considerable time with Delhi football.<\/p>\n<p>My sincere condolences. RIP \ud83d\ude4f<br \/>His contributions will never be forgotten. 1\/2 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/38JBEZfaPg\">pic.twitter.com\/38JBEZfaPg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shaji Prabhakaran (@Shaji4Football) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shaji4Football\/status\/1429305902620762114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe suffered a cardiac arrest at 8 am today and passed away at 8.30 am. He has been getting treatment after he was admitted in the hospital two days ago following the first stroke,\u201d Sadia Syeda, wife of Syed Shahid Hakim, told <em>Sportstar<\/em> from Gulbarga (Karnataka).<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Syed Hakim got positive for COVID 19, but he got recovered from it successfully. In 2017, Syed Hakim was also given the Dhyan Chand Award for Life Time Achievement in Sports and Games. Tulsidas Balaram, Hakim\u2019s former teammate who also represented India in the 1960 Olympic games along with him is shocked by this news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is shocking news,\u2019\u2019 said Tulsi Balaram, the Olympian, who also played in the 1960 Olympics. \u201cHe played in the centre-half position. Although he was in the Indian team he never got a chance to play in a match. He was a great footballer lover,\u201d Tulsidas Balaram said to Telangana Today on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syed Shahid Hakim has passed away at the age of 82. He was an Indian Olympic footballer and regarded as one of India\u2019s best coaches. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":33228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2061,640,1985,984,1526],"class_list":["post-10751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-afc-asian-cup","tag-dhyan-chand","tag-dhyanchand-award","tag-fifa","tag-olympics"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}