{"id":29290,"date":"2017-10-03T14:11:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T21:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29290"},"modified":"2017-10-03T14:11:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T21:11:58","slug":"29290","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/10\/03\/29290\/","title":{"rendered":"Schafer calls on fans to support Esteghlal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Tribune &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal\u2019s newly-appointed German coach Winfried Schafer has called on the club\u2019s supporters to stand behind the team after a poor start to the current season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a meeting with Seyed Reza Eftekhari, managing director of Esteghlal on Tuesday, the 67-year-old coach penned a one-year contract with the option of an extension, Tasnim News Agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>The former Cameroon and Thailand head coach replaced Alireza Mansourian in the popular football team. Under Mansourian\u2019s watch, Esteghlal suffered four defeats in seven matches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo have a successful team, we need our fans. We want our fans to be behind us in this moment. I want to help Esteghlal to claw its way back into the top teams, that\u2019s why I am here,\u201d Schafer told reporters at the news press conference on October 3.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone should be proud of wearing Esteghlal jersey. First of all, we have to support our team to get back on track. Then, we have to build Esteghlal\u2019s future on new talented players,\u201d the German manager added.<\/p>\n<p>Schafer has also worked at VfB Stuttgart, FK Baku, Karlsruher SC and Jamaica national football team.<\/p>\n<p>Currently Esteghlal is on 11th place in IPL table. The Blues have bagged just eight points from eight matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Tribune &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal\u2019s newly-appointed German coach Winfried Schafer has called on the club\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,165,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29290","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","category-uncategorized"],"views":3034,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29290","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=29290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}