{"id":11715,"date":"2010-12-11T09:38:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T17:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/11\/blazevic-is-new-china-olympic-coach\/"},"modified":"2010-12-11T09:38:01","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T17:38:01","slug":"blazevic-is-new-china-olympic-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/11\/blazevic-is-new-china-olympic-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Blazevic is new China Olympic coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">AFC &#8211; Beijing, <strong>China named Croatia&#8217;s Miroslav Blazevic the new head coach of its <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.the-afc.com\/afc\/coaches\/b\/300x200\/miroslav_blazevic.jpg\" \/>Olympic team on Saturday, state media reported. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Football Association (CFA) is bringing Blazevic in  after the team&#8217;s poor performance at the Asian Games in Guangzhou last  month, the official Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n<p>He replaces Chinese coach Sun Wei.<\/p>\n<p>Blazevic  signed a two-year contract with the CFA, which expires in December  2012, Xinhua said. Li Bing was named assistant coach.<\/p>\n<p>Blazevic,  75, who coached Croatia to third place in the 1998 World Cup, led the  Chinese Super League team Shanghai Shenhua to third place this year.<\/p>\n<p>He resigned as Bosnia&#8217;s national coach last year after the team failed to qualify for the 2010 World Cup.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; Beijing, China named Croatia&#8217;s Miroslav Blazevic the new head coach of its Olympic&#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-11715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c20-other-news"],"views":3291,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11715","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=11715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}