{"id":21065,"date":"2015-04-05T23:31:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T06:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=21065"},"modified":"2015-04-05T23:31:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T06:31:51","slug":"derakhshan-steps-down-as-persepolis-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/04\/05\/derakhshan-steps-down-as-persepolis-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Derakhshan Steps Down as Persepolis Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Hamid Derakhshan on Sunday resigned from his role as the head coach of Tehran&#8217;s popular football team, Persepolis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Derakhshan replaced Ali Daei in September but was forced to quit after poor results.<\/p>\n<p>With six weeks remaining, Persepolis currently is ninth in the Iran Professional League (IPL).<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian popular team will host Al-Nasr of Saudi Arabia on Wednesday in Group A of the AFC Champions League in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis assistant coach Hossein Abdi has been named as interim coach.<\/p>\n<p>Former Iran coach Branko Ivankovic is a candidate to take charge Persepolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Hamid Derakhshan on Sunday resigned from his role as the head coach&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":21066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":1615,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21065","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=21065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}