{"id":28040,"date":"2017-05-14T09:11:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T16:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28040"},"modified":"2017-05-14T09:11:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T16:11:45","slug":"ali-daei-returns-to-saipa-after-nine-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/05\/14\/ali-daei-returns-to-saipa-after-nine-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Daei returns to Saipa after nine years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Ali Daei was named as new head coach of Saipa football team on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saipa parted company with Hossein Faraki by mutual consent last week after the team finished 13th in the Iran Professional League (IPL).  <\/p>\n<p>Daei, who announced his retirement as Naft Tehran coach after winning Hazfi Cup on Thursday, signed a one-year contract with Saipa for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-Iran striker Daei led Saipa win Iran Professional League in 2006-07 as a player and a coach.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2008, he left Saipa by mutual consent.<\/p>\n<p>The former captain of the Iran national football team, who has played for clubs such as Bayern Munich and Hertha BSC, is the world&#8217;s all-time leading goalscorer in men&#8217;s international matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Ali Daei was named as new head coach of Saipa football&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":28041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division"],"views":4116,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28040","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=28040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}