{"id":12603,"date":"2011-12-09T20:35:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T04:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/12\/09\/estili-quits-as-persepolis-coach\/"},"modified":"2011-12-09T20:35:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T04:35:56","slug":"estili-quits-as-persepolis-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/12\/09\/estili-quits-as-persepolis-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Estili quits as Persepolis coach [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/cache\/multithumb_thumbs\/c_330_235_16777215_0___images_stories_dec01_10_13-2.jpg\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Hamid Estili stepped down as the coach of Persepolis after Esteghlal knocked the team out of Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Persepolis lost to Esteghlal 3-0 in a quarterfinal match of Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup at Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish all the best for the coach who will replace me at Persepolis. I did my best during my career with the team, but I have to say it\u2019s time to go,\u201d Estili said during the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Estili was appointed as Persepolis coach at the beginning of the season but was forced to quit after poor results in the Iranian Professional League and the Hazfi Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Hazfi Cup winner gets an automatic berth to the Asian Football Confederation Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r6Cw9qnlyR8&#038;feature=youtube_gdata\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r6Cw9qnlyR8&amp;feature=youtube_gdata<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, Hamid Estili stepped down as the coach of Persepolis after Esteghlal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":4876,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12603","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\/22615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}