{"id":11623,"date":"2010-10-29T16:48:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T23:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/10\/29\/ghotbi-to-retire-after-2011-afc-asian-cup\/"},"modified":"2010-10-29T16:48:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T23:48:36","slug":"ghotbi-to-retire-after-2011-afc-asian-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/10\/29\/ghotbi-to-retire-after-2011-afc-asian-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghotbi to retire after 2011 AFC Asian Cup [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"afshin_ghotbi_20091027\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/afshin_ghotbi_20091027.jpg\" height=\"253\" width=\"367\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran football coach Afshin Ghotbi will not extend his contract with the Team Melli, which runs out after the 2011 AFC Asian Cup.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Iranian football officials had also announced recently that they are reluctant to extend Ghotbi\u2019s contract.<\/p>\n<p>Iran coach lately announced that he will leave the national team after the Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Ghotbi wrote: \u201cIn the past few weeks, we\u2019ve seen some old discussions about my position in Iran national team which can hurt our condition\u2019s equilibrium. It\u2019s while we are approaching the 2011 AFC Asian Cup and we need to focus on the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, all Iranian people, media and sport officials support the team with 60 days remaining to the 2011 AFC Asian Cup except our training camp in the UAE. It\u2019s secret of victory and all of us must try to exhilarate the Iranians. As you see, we changed our style in the past year to adjust with modern football. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve verbally told the Iranian football officials that I would rather leave the team. I hope that another coach will replace me in the deserved team,\u201d Ghotbi added.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has been drawn along with defending champion Iraq, DPR Korea and the UAE in the 2011 AFC Asian Cup in Qatar, which begins in January.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vh8WCgOkDc4\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vh8WCgOkDc4<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran football coach Afshin Ghotbi will not extend his contract with the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":6335,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11623","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=11623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}