{"id":19810,"date":"2014-12-16T14:58:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T22:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19810"},"modified":"2014-12-16T14:58:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T22:58:49","slug":"mohammad-khakpour-appointed-as-coach-of-iran-u-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/12\/16\/mohammad-khakpour-appointed-as-coach-of-iran-u-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohammad Khakpour Appointed As Coach of Iran U-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>FFIRI has decided that former Iran international Mohammad Khakpour will be the new coach of Irans U-23 National Olympic team, also known as Team Melli Omid.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran Football Federation has finally chosen Mohammad Khakpour as the U-23 team head coach on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Khakpour will be Iran\u2019s Olympic football team coach until 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. <\/p>\n<p>The former Team Melli defender, who was one of Iran national team member in the 1998 World Cup in France, has a national &#8220;A&#8221; coaching license. He was appointed as Steel Azin head coach in 2010 but resigned after just three month.<\/p>\n<p>Zlatko Kranjcar, Mehdi Tartar and Mansour Ebrahimzadeh were also among the candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian Football Federation (IFF) parted company with Nelo Vingada as Iran Olympic head coach in November. <\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese coach was sacked from his post following the poor results in the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.<\/p>\n<p> Iran football team has not participated in the Olympics since 1976 Montreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, FFIRI has decided that former Iran international Mohammad Khakpour will be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":19811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":4952,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19810","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}