{"id":14378,"date":"2013-04-28T13:17:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T20:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=14378"},"modified":"2013-05-01T02:06:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T09:06:17","slug":"ghalenoei-hits-out-at-iran-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/04\/28\/ghalenoei-hits-out-at-iran-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghalenoei hits out at Iran link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal coach Amir Ghalenoei has dismissed rumors, which say he is returning to the Iran football team as a coach.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iranian media have reported that Ghalenoei is likely to replace Carlos Queiroz in the Iran football team.<\/p>\n<p>Ghalenoei was fired as Iran coach after the team produced poor results in the 2007 AFC Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI swear I\u2019m not thinking about returning to the Iran football team. I am just concentrating on Esteghlal at the moment. We must help Queiroz to take Iran to the 2014 World Cup,\u201d Ghalenoei said.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal will face Al-Ain of the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday in the AFC Champions League group stage. The Iranian team has already qualified for the next round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will play the Emirati team to earn the top spot of the group, however we will rest some of our key players since Esteghlal has a title decider against Foolad in the Iranian Professional League,\u201d the 49-year-old stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal coach Amir Ghalenoei has dismissed rumors, which say he is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":13945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5166,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14378","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=14378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}