{"id":13090,"date":"2012-07-23T17:42:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T00:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/07\/23\/i-am-not-a-magician-manuel-jose\/"},"modified":"2012-07-23T17:42:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T00:42:33","slug":"i-am-not-a-magician-manuel-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/07\/23\/i-am-not-a-magician-manuel-jose\/","title":{"rendered":"I am not a magician: Manuel Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"Manuel-Jose-press\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Manuel-Jose-press.jpg\" height=\"223\" width=\"294\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis coach Manuel Jose said on Monday that he cannot improve his team, which performed poorly last season, saying he is \u201cnot a magician\u201d.<\/strong> <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cWe are going to beat Sepasi in our second match in Iran Professional League but I am sad because the Persepolis spectators are barred from attending the match. You know, football without fans is like a food without salt,\u201d Jose said.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cPersepolis bagged a victory last week against Sanat Naft in Abadan despite playing in that climate (hot and humid). We only played with 40 percent of our power,\u201d the 66-year-old Portuguese coach said. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cI have been here just 15 days and it takes time to change the players. I am not a juggler or a magician. Persepolis has so many experienced players and I am happy to work with them,\u201d he said.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cPersepolis started its training late but we could win the title. We have to work hard. Persepolis needs its fans\u2019 support,\u201d Manuel Jose added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis coach Manuel Jose said on Monday that he cannot improve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":13058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":4552,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13090","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=13090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}