{"id":13067,"date":"2012-07-12T18:51:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T01:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/07\/12\/ali-daei-reappointed-rah-ahan-coach\/"},"modified":"2012-07-12T18:51:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T01:51:20","slug":"ali-daei-reappointed-rah-ahan-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/07\/12\/ali-daei-reappointed-rah-ahan-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Daei reappointed Rah Ahan coach [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"daei-shout33\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/daei-shout33.jpg\" height=\"223\" width=\"320\" \/>PFDC &#8211; REY, <strong>Iranian football legend Ali Daei will coach Rah Ahan for another season.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old had led the club to a disappointing eleventh spot in Iran&#8217;s Persian Gulf league last season and seemed to be heading out of the club, also being rumoured to return to Persepolis FC. <\/p>\n<p>However, after Portugese Manuel Jose was revealed as new Persepolis coach, Daei finally agreed to a contract extension with Rah Ahan.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Daei is the all-time leading goalscorer in international football history, having scored 109 goals in 149 caps for Iran. <\/p>\n<p>Following his retirement from Team Melli, Daei switched to coaching and led Saipa Karaj to the Iranian league title in 2007 and to the Asian Champions League quarterfinals a year later.<\/p>\n<p>The same year, Daei was appointed Iran&#8217;s national team coach and helped a struggling Team Melli to the final round of World Cup qualifiers, but was released after disappointing results in 2009. <\/p>\n<p>The former Bayern Munich and Hertha Berlin striker went on to coach Persepolis, winning two Cup titles in two seasons before moving on to Rah Ahan in 2011.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/45710462\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/45710462<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; REY, Iranian football legend Ali Daei will coach Rah Ahan for another season&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":5809,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13067","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=13067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}