{"id":26635,"date":"2016-12-05T21:29:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T05:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26635"},"modified":"2016-12-05T21:29:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T05:29:49","slug":"toni-candidate-to-take-charge-of-irans-machine-sazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/12\/05\/toni-candidate-to-take-charge-of-irans-machine-sazi\/","title":{"rendered":"Toni candidate to take charge of Iran\u2019s Machine Sazi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TABRIZ, <strong>Antonio Jose da Conceicao Oliveira, known as Toni, is a candidate to take charge of Iranian football team Machine Sazi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rasoul Khatibi quit his role as head coach of the rock-bottom team on Friday after suffering an away defeat against Persepolis.<\/p>\n<p>Under tutelage of Khatibi, Machine Sazi secured promotion to the Iran Professional League (IPL) last season.<\/p>\n<p>Machines Sazi has won just one match in IPL after 12 weeks, suffered eight defeats, and drawn three times.<\/p>\n<p>Farhad Kazemi, who stepped down as Siahjamegan coach, and Yahya Golmohammadi, who was sacked as head coach of Zob Ahan, are among the candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The 70-year-old Portuguese coach served three stints as coach of Tractor Sazi of Tabriz.<\/p>\n<p>Toni inspired Tractor Sazi to Hazfi Cup title in 2013-14.<\/p>\n<p>Toni earned 32 caps for Portugal, his debut coming on 12 October 1969 in a 0\u20131 away loss against Romania for the 1970 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p> His last match occurred eight years later, in a 0\u20132 friendly defeat in France.<\/p>\n<p>Toni was part of the country&#8217;s squad at the 1972 Brazil Independence Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TABRIZ, Antonio Jose da Conceicao Oliveira, known as Toni, is a candidate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":1802,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26635","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=26635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}