{"id":17458,"date":"2014-03-02T12:09:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T20:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17458"},"modified":"2014-03-02T12:09:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T20:09:06","slug":"lothar-matthaus-to-coach-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/03\/02\/lothar-matthaus-to-coach-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Lothar Matthaus to coach Iran?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Lothar Matthaus has reportedly been linked with Iran as a possible replacement for coach Carlos Queiroz after the 2014 World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reports suggest that Germany\u2019s most capped player is poised to take charge of the Iranian football team.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has been pitted against Argentina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Nigeria in Group F of the 2014 World Cup. It has emerged over the past month that Iran\u2019s Portuguese coach is not going to extend his contract after the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Matthaus has been without a team since he was sacked as Bulgaria coach after a dismal Euro 2012 qualifying campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old German previously coached the Hungarian national team and the clubs Rapid Wien, Partizan Belgrade, Red Bull Salzburg, and Atletico Paranaense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ll never reject a serious offer, and at least I&#8217;ll think about it,\u201d the Fars News Agency quoted Matthaus as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Lothar Matthaus has won more Germany caps than anyone else, 150, and went to nine major international tournaments, captaining the 1990 World Cup-winning team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Lothar Matthaus has reportedly been linked with Iran as a possible&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":15312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4049,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17458","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=17458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}