{"id":24131,"date":"2016-01-24T17:34:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T01:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24131"},"modified":"2016-01-24T17:34:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T01:34:32","slug":"iff-confirms-departure-of-iran-u23-coach-mohammad-khakpour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/01\/24\/iff-confirms-departure-of-iran-u23-coach-mohammad-khakpour\/","title":{"rendered":"IFF confirms departure of Iran U23 coach Mohammad Khakpour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Head of Iran Football Federation (HFF) Ali Kafashian says that Mohammad Khakpour\u2019s contract will not be renewed. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Khakpour\u2019s current contract expires at the end of the 2016 AFC U23 Championship and Kafashian announced that the federation will not extend his contract. <\/p>\n<p>Former Iran international defender Mohammad Khakpour was appointed as Iran U23 coach in last year\u2019s December. <\/p>\n<p>The Iranian team was knocked out of the 2016 AFC U23 Championship on Friday, losing to Japan 3-0 in the quarter-final round. <\/p>\n<p>Iran has defeated Syria and China in Group B but lost to host Qatar 2-1. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not going to renew Khakpour\u2019s contract. We thank him and wish him all the best,\u201d Kafashian said. <\/p>\n<p>Contract of Iran technical manager Mohammad Mayelikohan will not be extended as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Head of Iran Football Federation (HFF) Ali Kafashian says that Mohammad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":24132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,84,139,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-u23","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u23","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":2681,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24131","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=24131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}