{"id":11467,"date":"2010-09-07T08:50:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T15:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/09\/07\/mohajerani-a-master-mind-in-psychology\/"},"modified":"2010-09-07T08:50:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T15:50:05","slug":"mohajerani-a-master-mind-in-psychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/09\/07\/mohajerani-a-master-mind-in-psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohajerani a master-mind in psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Iranian coach Heshmat Mohajerani would deliberately lose to  his players in<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.the-afc.com\/afc\/coaches\/m\/mohajerani_walking.jpg\" height=\"258\" width=\"388\" \/><\/strong> <strong>friendly chess games in order to boost their confidence  ahead of big matches, he told the-afc.com. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mohajerani, one of Iran\u2019s greatest-ever coaches, was a chess  master but equally adept at lifting the mind. Indeed, he placed great  emphasis on psychology during his tenure as Team Melli coach in the late  70s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo matter how much advancements have been made in  technical knowledge and technology, psychology remains the priority in  my opinion,\u201d Mohajerani said.<\/p>\n<p>He said when players beat him, an  well-known chess expert, they would feel good about themselves and go  into their match full of confidence. The players\u00a0never knew, though,  that he deliberately lost.<\/p>\n<p>Mohajerani, who led Iran to AFC Asian  Cup glory in 1976, is the latest personality to be featured in  the-afc.com\u2019s series to celebrate 2010 as Asian Coaches Year.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/en\/features-and-interviews\/30273-heshmat-khan-a-folk-hero-for-team-melli\">Please click here to read the feature.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Iranian coach Heshmat Mohajerani would deliberately lose to his players in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c20-other-news"],"views":3456,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11467","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}