{"id":21669,"date":"2015-05-30T20:18:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T03:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=21669"},"modified":"2015-05-30T20:18:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T03:18:34","slug":"mahdavikia-to-be-appointed-as-hamburg-sv-u-14-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/05\/30\/mahdavikia-to-be-appointed-as-hamburg-sv-u-14-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahdavikia to be Appointed as Hamburg SV U-14 coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Hamburg player Mehdi Mahdavikia has agreed to take charge of the German club\u2019s U-14 coaching role days after his U-11 team finished in second place in the 2015 Cordial Cup. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a meeting with Hamburg SV officials and I accepted their offer to coach the club\u2019s U-14 team. They have hired former Hoffenheim general manager who is a specialist in youth ranks and I will gain a lot of good experience during this new challenge,\u201d Mahdavikia told reporters in a press conference. <\/p>\n<p>Mahdavikia who is a co-founder of KIA Football Academy led his U-11 team to Cordial Cup second place. <\/p>\n<p>In May 2015, the club under-11 side was invited as a guest team to the Cordial Cup in Austria, one of the premier youth competitions in Europe. The little-known team defeated SpVgg EGC Wirges (4-0), SpVgg Unterhaching (2-0), FC Bayern Munich (3-0), Bezirksauswahl Kitzb\u00fchel (3-1) and drew in a goalless draw with Finnish side KaPa United. <\/p>\n<p>The team progressed to the next stage to defeat Hungarian champions Videoton FC (4-0) and German sides VfB Stuttgart (1-0) and Bayer 04 Leverkusen (3-1) before progressing to the final. In the final the team lost against TSV 1860 M\u00fcnchen 7-6 on penalties and finished runners-up on their debut at an international tournament. <\/p>\n<p>KIA Football Academy striker Yadegar Rostami was awarded the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award and was the top goalscorer in the competition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Hamburg player Mehdi Mahdavikia has agreed to take charge of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":21670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,93,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":2829,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21669","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=21669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}