{"id":11710,"date":"2010-12-08T18:17:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T02:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/08\/is-sven-goran-eriksson-going-to-coach-iran-2\/"},"modified":"2010-12-08T18:17:06","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T02:17:06","slug":"is-sven-goran-eriksson-going-to-coach-iran-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/12\/08\/is-sven-goran-eriksson-going-to-coach-iran-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Sven-Goran Eriksson going to coach Iran?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Sven-Goran-Eriksson-001\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Sven-Goran-Eriksson-001.jpg\" height=\"233\" width=\"389\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Leicester city manager Sven-Goran Eriksson is a candidate to take over Iran football team, according to the media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In  April, vice president of Iran Football Federation (IFF) Mehdi Taj had  said that Eriksson was a candidate to coach Iran, but instead the  62-year-old Swedish took charge of Ivory Coast team in the 2010 World  Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The current Iranian coach Afshin Ghotbi is under contract  with the IFF until the end of the AFC Asian Cup 2011 and Eriksson is  again a candidate to replace him.<\/p>\n<p>Reports say that Ghotbi will coach a J-League Japanese team next season.<\/p>\n<p>Diego  Maradona was also considered as a nominee to head the team and the  officials announced their desire to hire him, but apparently the former  Argentina coach is not interested in leading Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Leicester city manager Sven-Goran Eriksson is a candidate to take over Iran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4345,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11710","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=11710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}