{"id":17418,"date":"2014-02-25T12:40:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T20:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17418"},"modified":"2014-02-25T12:40:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T20:40:22","slug":"new-coach-focused-on-survival-of-zob-ahan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/02\/25\/new-coach-focused-on-survival-of-zob-ahan\/","title":{"rendered":"New coach focused on survival of Zob Ahan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ESFAHAN, <strong>With just three weeks left, Zob Ahan appointed Firooz Karimi as the new head coach of the Isfahan based team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Zob Ahan is only four points above the Iran Professional League relegation zone, having won only four of its 27 matches in the current season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZob Ahan has 45-year history and we have to save the team from relegation. We need to keep trying to do that,\u201d newly-appointed Karimi said.<\/p>\n<p>Karimi becomes Zob Ahan\u2019s third coach in the current season of the Iran Professional League (IPL).<\/p>\n<p>The former Esteghlal and Paykan coach replaced Mojtaba Taghavi, who was appointed Zob Ahan coach in December.<\/p>\n<p>Zob Ahan started the competitions with Luka Bonacic but two parties parted company by mutual agreement. He was forced to return to Croatia for the treatment of his kidney disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ESFAHAN, With just three weeks left, Zob Ahan appointed Firooz Karimi as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":2948,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17418","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=17418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}