{"id":20238,"date":"2015-01-16T15:12:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T23:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=20238"},"modified":"2015-01-16T15:12:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T23:12:51","slug":"mahdavikia-hopes-to-one-day-coach-team-melli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/01\/16\/mahdavikia-hopes-to-one-day-coach-team-melli\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahdavikia hopes to one day coach Team Melli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TehranTimes &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian football legend Mehdi Mahdavikia stated that he will attend coaching classes in Germany and may return to the country to help Persepolis and Team Melli.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mahdavikia, who was a key man in Iran football team for over 10 years, is now working at the youth levels of Iranian football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 1996 Asian Cup I was just 19 years old. We had a fabulous team and despite we\u2019ve lost the first game but in the next games, we had a great performance. Unfortunately, at the end we finished third in that tournament. Without a doubt, that team was Iran\u2019s golden generation,\u201d Mahdavikia told in a TV program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2000, we had a good team but we had some problems inside the team, for that reason we didn\u2019t get good results. In the 2004 AFC Asian Cup, we had the best team in over the past two decades. We would have definitely won the tournament if the Lebanese referee in the semi-final match against China was not in favor of the host,\u201d Mahdavikia added.<\/p>\n<p>Mahdavikia believes Carlos Queiroz team has done a good job in the first two games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrently we have a good team in Asian Cup and fortunately they have won the first two games to book a place in the quarter-final. Queiroz\u2019s policy is to not concede a goal first then try to score,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Former Hamburg player also stated that he is in contact with the German club in order to attend coaching classes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to start coaching at youth levels and because of that I am going to attend in the coaching classes. I hope one day I return to Persepolis or manage Team Melli. Currently, I\u2019m focusing on youth levels to prepare a 15-man squad under 11 and take it to a European tournament,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TehranTimes &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian football legend Mehdi Mahdavikia stated that he will attend coaching classes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":20239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news"],"views":3707,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20238","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}