{"id":12574,"date":"2011-11-22T17:46:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T01:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/11\/22\/eriksson-likely-to-become-persepolis-coach\/"},"modified":"2011-11-22T17:46:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T01:46:55","slug":"eriksson-likely-to-become-persepolis-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/11\/22\/eriksson-likely-to-become-persepolis-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Eriksson likely to become Persepolis coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Sven-Goran-Eriksson-001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Sven-Goran-Eriksson-001.jpg\" height=\"187\" width=\"312\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former England coach Sven Goran Eriksson is expected to be appointed as Iran\u2019s Persepolis coach.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The 63-year-old Swede has been offered to coach Iran\u2019s struggling football club with a contract worth one million pounds, British newspaper the Sun reported on its website.<\/p>\n<p>Eriksson is considering a trip to Dubai to meet Persepolis general manager Mohammad Ruyanian within the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>Ruyanian had already said: \u201cWe are going to sign a big coach. We have negotiated with Sven Goran Eriksson.\u201d<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Eriksson has worked in six countries so far. He began his coaching career with two Scandinavian teams, then left his homeland to become Portugal\u2019s Benfica coach.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Eriksson led Roma, Fiorentina, Lazio and Sampdoria of Italy. But he disappointed at Manchester City and Notts County and was fired by Leicester City last month.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Eriksson has also coached Mexico and Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Former England coach Sven Goran Eriksson is expected to be appointed as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3278,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12574","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=12574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}