{"id":11422,"date":"2010-08-14T08:47:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T15:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/08\/14\/japan-offer-interesting-fernandez\/"},"modified":"2010-08-14T08:47:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T15:47:27","slug":"japan-offer-interesting-fernandez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/08\/14\/japan-offer-interesting-fernandez\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan offer &#8216;interesting&#8217;: Fernandez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"JFA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/JFA.jpg\" height=\"241\" width=\"291\" \/>AFC &#8211; TOKYO, <strong>Spanish coach Victor Fernandez has described as &#8220;interesting&#8221; Japan&#8217;s  offer for him to become their new coach but has not indicated whether or  not he will accept, a press report said Friday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 49-year-old, who guided FC Porto to the Intercontinental Cup  in 2004, said his agent had been contacted by the Japan Football  Association (JFA) about the offer, the Sports Nippon daily reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I appreciate such a proposal and it is interesting,&#8221; Fernandez was quoted as telling the daily on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>But he refused to make any comment on talks under way between his side and the Japanese association, the Sports Nippon said.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez,  who resigned as coach of second-division Spanish outfit Real Betis last  season, told the daily that the most important detail in the offer is  what kind of &#8220;project&#8221; is envisaged, without elaborating.<\/p>\n<p>JFA  vice-president Kuniya Daini told Japanese media on Thursday that the  association was hoping to sign a contract with a new coach &#8220;next week,  if possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>JFA President Junji Ogura said earlier that there were three candidates for the job, without giving any names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TOKYO, Spanish coach Victor Fernandez has described as &#8220;interesting&#8221; Japan&#8217;s offer for him&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3390,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}