{"id":10876,"date":"2010-01-12T18:47:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T02:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/01\/12\/marfavi-walks-out-as-esteghlal-football-coach\/"},"modified":"2010-01-12T18:47:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T02:47:02","slug":"marfavi-walks-out-as-esteghlal-football-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/01\/12\/marfavi-walks-out-as-esteghlal-football-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Marfavi walks out as Esteghlal football coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"marfavi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/marfavi.jpg\" height=\"216\" width=\"320\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Samad Marfavi stepped down as Esteghlal\u2019s coach after the fans chanted slogans against the team\u2019s general manager.<br \/><\/strong><br \/>Esteghlal scored a late equalizer against Saipa in the Iran Professional League (IPL) at the Azadi Stadium on Sunday. During the match some Esteghlal fans demanded in their slogans that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad replace Amir-Reza Vaezi-Ashtiani because of the team\u2019s poor results.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal officials have yet to accept Marfavi\u2019s resignation. They are expected to announce their decision on the matter by Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>According to one of the club\u2019s board members, Marfavi submitted his resignation to Esteghlal managerial board Monday morning; however, around noon Marfavi denied doing such and said he was not going to leave the club.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal is fourth in the IPL standings with 33 points, eleven points behind pacesetter Sepahan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Samad Marfavi stepped down as Esteghlal\u2019s coach after the fans chanted slogans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3540,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}