{"id":17490,"date":"2014-03-05T01:16:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T09:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17490"},"modified":"2014-03-05T01:16:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T09:16:06","slug":"lothar-matthaus-denies-iran-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/03\/05\/lothar-matthaus-denies-iran-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Lothar Matthaus denies Iran link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Lothar Matthaus has denied reports that he is set to negotiate with the Iranian football officials to take charge of the team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Germany\u2019s most capped player has been reportedly linked with a move to Iran.<\/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>\u201cI will travel to Tehran on Wednesday to record a television program about football. I&#8217;ve never been there, it should be a very beautiful city,\u201d Sky TV expert Lothar Matthaeus said in an interview with Die Welt on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI read in the papers that I am looking for a coaching job, but I am very satisfied with my life,\u201d former Bayern Munich midfielder stated.<\/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>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<p>It has emerged over the past month that Iran\u2019s Portuguese coach Carlos Queiroz is not going to extend his contract after the 2014 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has been drawn with Argentina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Nigeria in Group F of the World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Lothar Matthaus has denied reports that he is set to negotiate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4271,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17490","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}