Iranian assistant referee dies at 56

MNA - Alireza Sadeghijoo, a former assistant referee, has died of a stroke at the age of 56 on Tuesday in Tehran’s Chamran hospital.

He will lay to rest at Tehran's Behesht-e Zahra cemetery on Thursday.

Sadeghijoo assisted the Hungarian referee Sándor Puhl in Tehran’s football derby between Esteghlal and Persepolis.