{"id":13045,"date":"2012-07-01T17:53:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T00:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/07\/01\/manuel-jose-nears-persepolis-hotseat\/"},"modified":"2012-07-01T17:53:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T00:53:06","slug":"manuel-jose-nears-persepolis-hotseat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/07\/01\/manuel-jose-nears-persepolis-hotseat\/","title":{"rendered":"Manuel Jose nears Persepolis hotseat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/tehrantimes.com\/cache\/multithumb_thumbs\/c_330_235_16777215_0___images_stories_edim_13-3(17).jpg\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Manuel Jose de Jesus Silva, known simply as Manuel Jose, reached an agreement to join Persepolis football team, according to a source close to the team.<\/strong> <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Gabriel Calderon, Bruno Metsu and Manuel Jose were the three candidates in the mix for the top job at the Tehran giant, which suffered a dismal 2011-12 season.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Mustafa Denizli announced his resignation from the Persepolis job last week. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The 62-year-old Turk, who has been residing in Turkey for the last month, telephoned Persepolis general manager Mohammad Ruyanian and said he could not continue with Persepolis due to personal problems.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>According to a source close to the club, Manuel Jose and Persepolis have reached a final agreement and the Portuguese coach will be introduced to the team on Monday. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Manuel Jose has been without a team since he quit Egyptian giant Al-Ahly in May. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Nine-time Iranian champions Persepolis finished the 2011-12 Iranian Pro League season in 12th place and bowed out of the 2012 AFC Champions League in the Round of 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, Manuel Jose de Jesus Silva, known simply as Manuel Jose, reached&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":4101,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13045","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=13045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}