{"id":31522,"date":"2018-04-21T13:57:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T20:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31522"},"modified":"2018-04-21T13:57:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T20:57:20","slug":"javad-nekounam-candidate-to-lead-iran-u23-football-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/04\/21\/javad-nekounam-candidate-to-lead-iran-u23-football-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Javad Nekounam candidate to lead Iran U23 football team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Ex-Iran captain Javad Nekounam has been reportedly nominated as a candidate to coach Iran U23 football team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran, a powerhouse of the Asian football, has not been in the Olympics since the 1976 games in Munich.<\/p>\n<p>The team is without a coach since parting company with Amirhossein Peyrovani.<\/p>\n<p>Nekounam currently coaches Iran\u2019s first division Nassaji Mazandaran. He has served as coach of Khooneh be Khooneh football team.<\/p>\n<p>Nicknamed Neku, and widely regarded as one of Asia&#8217;s greatest footballers, Nekounam represented the Iran national team a record of 151 times, playing several major tournaments including two World Cups and four Asian Cups.<\/p>\n<p>Former Persepolis and Sepahan coach Zlatko Kranjcar and Ex-Iran assistant coach Omid Namazi had been linked with the vacant job.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-Iran and Persepolis midfielder Hamid Estili had been already named as new technical manager of Iran U23 football team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Ex-Iran captain Javad Nekounam has been reportedly nominated as a candidate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,84,139,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-u23","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u23","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":2211,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31522","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=31522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31524,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31522\/revisions\/31524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}