{"id":30175,"date":"2017-12-24T13:50:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T21:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30175"},"modified":"2017-12-24T13:50:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T21:50:14","slug":"afshin-peyrovani-takes-persepolis-sporting-director-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/12\/24\/afshin-peyrovani-takes-persepolis-sporting-director-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Afshin Peyrovani takes Persepolis sporting director job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Team Melli and Persepolis defender Afshin Peyrovani has returned to elite football as sporting director with the Iran league champions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Peyrovani replaced Mahmoud Khordbin in the post on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis acting president Hamidreza Garshasbi has appointed Peyrovani to the role.<\/p>\n<p>Peyrovani, 47, is a familiar face for Persepolis\u2019s fans since he has played in the Iranian giant for 11 years from 1993 to 2004.<\/p>\n<p>He has also coached Persepolis for a while after the departure of Afshin Ghotbi in November 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The former defender has worked as sporting director of Iran national football team in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Peyrovani has 66 caps for Team Melli and was a participant at the 1998 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Team Melli and Persepolis defender Afshin Peyrovani has returned to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30175","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":954,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30175","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=30175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}