{"id":26479,"date":"2016-11-07T14:02:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T22:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26479"},"modified":"2016-11-07T14:16:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T22:16:46","slug":"afshin-ghotbi-takes-charge-of-chinese-first-division-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/11\/07\/afshin-ghotbi-takes-charge-of-chinese-first-division-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Afshin Ghotbi takes charge of Chinese first division club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; SHIJIAZHUANG, <strong>Former Iran national team head coach Afshin Ghotbi has been appointed as the coach of Chinese club Shijiazhuang Ever Bright on Monday, according to the local media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shijiazhuang Ever Bright finished 16th place in the 2016 Chinese Super League season and was relegated to the first division (China League One).<\/p>\n<p>Ghotbi replaced Li Jinyu as the club targets a return to the Chinese top division.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year old Iranian-American has worked alongside Guus Hiddink with South Korea. In 2008 he led Persepolis to Iran Professional League championship before accepting the Iran national team job in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving Iran in 2011, Ghotbi was appointed as Japan\u2019s J. League side Shimizu S-Pulse head coach but he left the club in summer of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2016 he was appointed as the head coach of Thai club Buriram but he was sacked just three months into his contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; SHIJIAZHUANG, Former Iran national team head coach Afshin Ghotbi has been appointed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,89,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c20-other-news"],"views":2592,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26479","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=26479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}