{"id":25104,"date":"2016-05-03T16:15:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T23:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=25104"},"modified":"2016-05-03T16:15:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T23:15:55","slug":"i-would-like-to-begin-my-coaching-career-with-queiroz-javad-nekounam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/05\/03\/i-would-like-to-begin-my-coaching-career-with-queiroz-javad-nekounam\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I would like to begin my coaching career with Queiroz&#8221;: Javad Nekounam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Former Iran national team captain Javad Nekounam revealed that he is going to start his coaching career as Carlos Queiroz assistant at Team Melli.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to lose this chance to work with Queiroz since I can learn a lot from him. He is a great coach and this would be an honor for me to be his assistant at Team Melli,\u201d Nekounam said.<\/p>\n<p>Former Osasuna midfielder, who is currently playing in Qatar Stars League side Al Arabi, stated that he would like to continue his playing career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAl Arabi has offered me a contract extension and when I see I still have offers from outside of Iran I don\u2019t want to put an end to my playing career. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would not like to retire from football because at the age of 35 I still have good offers to continue. But I will terminate my playing career if I have a chance to work with Queiroz. Before joining Al Arabi I talked with Queiroz and he told me to continue playing,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Nekounam spent most of his professional career with Osasuna, appearing in 197 official games and scoring 31 goals during his two spells and also being team captain.<\/p>\n<p>He has represented the Iranian national team 151 times, playing several major tournaments including two World Cups and four Asian Cups. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DOHA, Former Iran national team captain Javad Nekounam revealed that he is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":25105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,91,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2484,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25104","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=25104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}