{"id":29267,"date":"2017-10-02T14:52:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T21:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29267"},"modified":"2017-10-02T14:52:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T21:52:31","slug":"winfried-schafer-appointed-esteghlal-tehran-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/10\/02\/winfried-schafer-appointed-esteghlal-tehran-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Winfried Sch\u00e4fer appointed Esteghlal Tehran coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Winfried Sch\u00e4fer has been named as new head coach of Esteghlal football team on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 67-year-old coach has penned a one-year contract, with the option of extension.<\/p>\n<p>The former Cameroon and Thailand head coach replaced Alireza Mansourian in the Iranian popular football team.<\/p>\n<p>Sch\u00e4fer has also worked at VfB Stuttgart, FK Baku, Karlsruher SC and Jamaica national football team.<\/p>\n<p>Former Real Madrid coach Bernd Schuster and ex-Al Hilal coach Zlatko Dalic were also candidates to take charge of Esteghlal.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal sits 11th in Iran Professional League table. The Blues have bagged just eight points from eight matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Winfried Sch\u00e4fer has been named as new head coach of Esteghlal football&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":2612,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29267","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=29267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}