{"id":11727,"date":"2010-12-17T19:16:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T03:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/17\/meet-the-coach-afshin-ghotbi\/"},"modified":"2010-12-17T19:16:24","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T03:16:24","slug":"meet-the-coach-afshin-ghotbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/17\/meet-the-coach-afshin-ghotbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the coach: Afshin Ghotbi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"Ghotbi3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Ghotbi3.jpg\" height=\"308\" width=\"371\" \/>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>After guiding Persepolis to the 2008 Iran Pro League title the Iran FA turned to Afshin Ghotbi. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 47-year-old, however, was unable to guide Team Melli to the  FIFA World Cup in South Africa but his services were retained for the  AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2011\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>Born in the southern Iranian city of  Shiraz, Ghotbi moved to the USA at the age of 13 and went on to be  involved in collegiate football and then youth development which saw him  become a scout for the US national team.<\/p>\n<p>In 1998 he moved to  Korea as a match analyst and after spells as an assistant coach at Suwon  Samsung Bluewings and then Los Angeles Galaxy he returned to Korea to  serve as an assistant to Dick Advocaat and then Pim Verbeek prior to his  move to Tehran in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2011\u2122 will be  Ghotbi&#8217;s last assignment as Iran coach as he has already signed up a  contract with Japanese outfit Shimizu S-Pulse.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time  Asian champions were placed in Group D for the continental showpiece  alongside defending champions Iraq, DPR Korea and the UAE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, After guiding Persepolis to the 2008 Iran Pro League title the Iran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":6027,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11727","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=11727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}