{"id":11167,"date":"2010-04-18T18:35:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T01:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/04\/18\/ghotbi-candidate-for-australian-post-verbeek-says\/"},"modified":"2010-04-18T18:35:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T01:35:47","slug":"ghotbi-candidate-for-australian-post-verbeek-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/04\/18\/ghotbi-candidate-for-australian-post-verbeek-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghotbi candidate for Australian post, Verbeek says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"ghotbi-people2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/ghotbi-people2.jpg\" height=\"286\" width=\"440\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN,<strong> Dutch coach Pim Verbeek referred to Iran coach Afshin Ghotbi as a worthy successor for him in the Australian football team after the 2010 FIFA World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have worked with Ghotbi in South Korea. He understands football very well. I have no doubt that he can get good results with Iran in the 2011 AFC Asian Cup. In my opinion, Ghotbi is a good candidate to take charge of Australia\u2019s team after the 2010 World Cup,\u201d the 54-year-old coach said.<\/p>\n<p>Ghotbi was Verbeek\u2019s assistant in the South Korea football team during the 2007 AFC Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p> The current Australia coach Verbeek revealed that he will leave the team after the World Cup and the Australian FA is ready to appoint a replacement in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Daily Telegraph recently reported the Australian Football Association has approached Galatasaray\u2019s Frank Rijkaard for the position of national team coach of the Socceroos.<\/p>\n<p>The former Barcelona coach Rijkaard currently works with Australian internationals Harry Kewell and Lucas Neill at the Turkish side and both players have supposedly recommended the Dutch coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Dutch coach Pim Verbeek referred to Iran coach Afshin Ghotbi as a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3747,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11167","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=11167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}