{"id":28003,"date":"2017-05-09T23:18:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T06:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28003"},"modified":"2017-05-09T23:18:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T06:18:24","slug":"hossein-faraki-bids-farewell-to-saipa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/05\/09\/hossein-faraki-bids-farewell-to-saipa\/","title":{"rendered":"Hossein Faraki bids farewell to Saipa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Hossein Faraki stepped down from coaching role of the Saipa football team on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He helped Saipa avoid relegation from the Iran Professional League last week.  <\/p>\n<p>Last year, Faraki joined Saipa on a one-year contract for an undisclosed fee and didn\u2019t extend his deal with the Iranian football team at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFaraki has said goodbye to Saipa and we wished him all the best,\u201d Saipa General Manager Reza Darvish said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe needs to rest and will not accept any offer for one year,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Tractor Sazi coach Amir Ghalenoei and Naft Tehran coach Ali Daei are reportedly candidates to replace Faraki.<\/p>\n<p>Faraki, 60, began his coaching career as an assistant coach at Pas Tehran, the club that he played for in 1976 to 1992.<\/p>\n<p>After six years as assistant coach, he was named as Pas head coach in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>During Branko Ivankovic&#8217;s time at Team Melli, Faraki was his assistant. He was also the head coach of the Iran under-23 football team from 2003 till 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Faraki has worked at Naft Tehran and won the IPL titles with Foolad and Sepahan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Hossein Faraki stepped down from coaching role of the Saipa football&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division"],"views":4355,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28003","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=28003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}