{"id":11706,"date":"2010-12-08T18:07:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T02:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/08\/maradona-will-not-coach-iran\/"},"modified":"2010-12-08T18:07:24","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T02:07:24","slug":"maradona-will-not-coach-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/08\/maradona-will-not-coach-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Maradona &#8216;will not coach Iran&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Diego Maradona\" src=\"http:\/\/previous.presstv.ir\/photo\/20101207\/gholami20101207174903623.jpg\" height=\"247\" width=\"371\" \/>PTV &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona will not probably accept steering Iran&#8217;s national team, a source close to him has said.<\/strong><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It sounds crazy to me,&#8221; the source, who has known Maradona for more  than 10 years, told Germany&#8217;s DPA on Tuesday on condition of anonymity. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to be very careful because people use Maradona to make newspaper headlines,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p>Rumors have swirled in recent months that Maradona is to take charge of the Iranian outfit. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Diego wants something closer. The idea is to coach some team in  Argentina, and then a country that is close or with a history, like  those things people said about Portugal,&#8221; the source said. &#8220;He wants to  be close to his family.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Maradona coached Argentina in the 2010 World Cup, when the South  Americans were eliminated in the quarterfinals with a painful 4-0 defeat  to Germany. <\/p>\n<p>On July 27, the Argentine Football Association announced it was not extending Maradona&#8217;s contract beyond July 31. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; TEHRAN, Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona will not probably accept steering Iran&#8217;s national&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3132,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11706","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=11706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}