{"id":17077,"date":"2014-01-21T12:54:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T20:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17077"},"modified":"2014-01-21T12:54:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T20:54:26","slug":"its-time-for-me-to-step-down-persepolis-gm-rouyanian-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/01\/21\/its-time-for-me-to-step-down-persepolis-gm-rouyanian-says\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time for me to step down, Persepolis GM Rouyanian says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis general manager Mohammad Rouyanian walked away from the popular Iranian club on Tuesday due to financial concerns.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rouyanian also wrote a letter to say farewell to Persepolis fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to say a few words to you. I would like to kindly inform you that I want to quit the club. It&#8217;s hard to write a goodbye letter, but it\u2019s time for me to step down,\u201d Rouyanian wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did my best since I was appointed as Persepolis general manager two years ago. Many thanks to all the staff, players, and fans who supported me during my career at the club,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want the fans and everyone to stick together. I think my time is over at the club. I feel it had to happen sooner,\u201d Rouyanian said.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis is currently in third place in the Iran Professional League (IPL), behind Foolad and its arch rival Esteghlal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis general manager Mohammad Rouyanian walked away from the popular Iranian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":2601,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17077","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=17077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}