{"id":20586,"date":"2015-02-18T12:34:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T20:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=20586"},"modified":"2015-02-18T12:34:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T20:34:17","slug":"ghotbi-linked-with-persepolis-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/02\/18\/ghotbi-linked-with-persepolis-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghotbi linked with Persepolis job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis football club has started negotiation with former Team Melli coach Afshin Ghotbi to replace under fire Hamid Derakhshan according to a report in Iranian newspaper Khabar Varzeshi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersepolis officials called me and I\u2019ve presented my plans until the AFC Champions League final,\u201d Ghotbi told the Iranian daily.<\/p>\n<p>The last time Persepolis has won the Iran Professional League was in 2007\u201308 when Ghotbi led them to the glory.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis current coach Derakhshan is under real pressure after earning just three points from the last five matches.<\/p>\n<p> After winning against arch-rival Esteghlal in the 15th round of domestic league, Persepolis failed to get a win in five consecutive matches, losing all of them.<\/p>\n<p>Derakhshan, who replaced Ali Daei in September 2014, has a 35.39% winning record in 17 matches (6W, 4D, 7L).<\/p>\n<p>Former Iran coach Branko Ivankovic is another candidate to replace Derakhshan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis football club has started negotiation with former Team Melli coach&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":10865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":4273,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20586","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=20586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}