{"id":13049,"date":"2012-07-03T20:03:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T03:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/07\/03\/manuel-jose-appointed-as-persepolis-coach\/"},"modified":"2012-07-03T20:03:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T03:03:12","slug":"manuel-jose-appointed-as-persepolis-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/07\/03\/manuel-jose-appointed-as-persepolis-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Manuel Jose appointed as Persepolis coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/kabirnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Manuel-Jose-set-to-Become-Persepolis-Boss.jpg\" height=\"283\" width=\"378\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Manuel Jose was appointed as the Persepolis coach on Tuesday and has agreed one-year deal reportedly worth $1 million.<\/strong> <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The reports suggested that the 66-year-old Portuguese will be assisted by former Persepolis midfielder Hamid Derakhshan.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Jose is credited for discovering Luis Figo while he was working with Sporting CP, a fact that he denies.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>He left Al-Ahly in February following the Port Said tragedy in which at least 74 people were killed, but returned two weeks later due to his good relationship with the club. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Manuel Jose finally left the Egyptian team 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 16th round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, Manuel Jose was appointed as the Persepolis coach on Tuesday and&#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-13049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":4490,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13049","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=13049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}