{"id":29185,"date":"2017-09-24T18:21:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T01:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29185"},"modified":"2017-09-24T18:23:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T01:23:39","slug":"german-turkish-coach-engin-firat-denies-move-to-esteghlal-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/09\/24\/german-turkish-coach-engin-firat-denies-move-to-esteghlal-tehran\/","title":{"rendered":"German Turkish coach Engin Firat denies move to Esteghlal Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>German Turkish coach Engin Firat says no Esteghlal official has contacted him so far.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian Blues are searching new head coach after parting company with Alireza Mansourian last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Mansourian quit as Esteghlal coach after a string of dire results this season in Iran Professional League.<\/p>\n<p>Under the guidance of Mansourian, Esteghlal sits rock bottom of the table with five points from seven matches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly some agents called me but Esteghlal officials have not contacted me,\u201d Firat told Tehran Times.<\/p>\n<p>The Tehran based football club have also negotiated with Fatih Terim in the last few days but the former Turkey national football team coach has not answered yet.<\/p>\n<p>Former Bayer Leverkusen coach Christoph Daum is among the candidates to be appointed as Esteghlal coach.<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian coach Sergio Ricardo de Paiva Farias, who won the AFC Champions League title with Pohang Steelers in 2009, and Italian Walter Zenga are on the list.<\/p>\n<p>Firat has worked in three Iranian clubs, namely Sepahan, Saipa, and Gostaresh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, German Turkish coach Engin Firat says no Esteghlal official has contacted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,91,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-c20-other-news","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":3059,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29185","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=29185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}