{"id":245,"date":"2021-08-19T21:21:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T15:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=139768"},"modified":"2021-08-19T21:21:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T15:51:34","slug":"afghan-national-team-footballer-zaki-anwari-dies-in-fall-from-a-plane-at-kabul-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/other-sports\/afghan-national-team-footballer-zaki-anwari-dies-in-fall-from-a-plane-at-kabul-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan national team footballer Zaki Anwari dies in fall from a plane at Kabul Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zaki Anwari, an Afghan national team football player died after falling from a U.S. plane at Kabul airport as reported by Ariana (Afghan news agency) on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ariana News Agency reports Afghan national team footballer Zaki Anwari was one of the victims who died after falling from a U.S. plane at Kabul airport in Afghanistan<\/p>\n<p>For more on this and other news visit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8OWd2TNmj1\">https:\/\/t.co\/8OWd2TNmj1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky News Breaking (@SkyNewsBreak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkyNewsBreak\/status\/1428358525663670288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A huge number of people attempted to flee from Afghanistan after the Taliban had taken over the capital. Many were seen trying everything possible to jump on board the U.S. plane. Some even chose to hang on to the wheels of the aircraft with one of them being the young <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zaki Anwari.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is claimed that the 19-year-old\u2019s remains were discovered on the US Air Force C-17 plane. Zaki was identified by a known person and it is believed that Zaki had gotten stuck in the landing gear mechanism which closes when the wheels of the aircraft are retracted. The US plane had no choice but to make an emergency landing in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>The young footballer was ambitious and dreamt of becoming the master of his destiny in his last and final Facebook post. He wrote, \u201cYou\u2019re the painter of your life. Don\u2019t surrender the paintbrush to anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zaki Anwari fell to his death after hanging on to the USAF Boeing C-17 in an attempt to flee the country. His death was confirmed by the General Directorate for Sport according to reports from Ariana.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young Afghan national team football player named Zaki Anwari died after falling from a U.S. plane at Kabul airport on Thursday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":23388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[768,2039,938,857],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-afghanistan","tag-asian-football-club","tag-soccer","tag-taliban"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","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\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}