{"id":28350,"date":"2017-06-12T08:45:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=28350"},"modified":"2017-06-12T08:54:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:54:52","slug":"amirhossein-peyrovani-appointed-as-iran-u-23-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/06\/12\/amirhossein-peyrovani-appointed-as-iran-u-23-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Amirhossein Peyrovani appointed as Iran U-23 coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Amirhossein Peyrovani has been named as new head coach of Iran\u2019s U-23 football team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He is preparing Iran for the 2018 AFC U-23 Championship qualification, where the Persians have been drawn along with Kyrgyzstan and Oman.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will open the competition with a match against host Kyrgyzstan on July 19.<\/p>\n<p>Peyrovani has been head coach of Iran U-20 football team in the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>Under tutelage of Peyrovani, Iran U-20 football team failed to qualify for the knockout stag after being defeated by Zambia and Portugal, despite a win over Costa Rica.<\/p>\n<p>Iran U-23 football team has not qualified for the Olympics since 1976 Olympic Games in in Montreal, Quebec.<\/p>\n<p>The 47-year-old coach has already worked in Iran\u2019s U-23 football team as an assistant in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Amirhossein Peyrovani has been named as new head coach of Iran\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":28351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,139,91,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u23","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":4023,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28350","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=28350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}