{"id":31628,"date":"2018-04-29T09:50:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T16:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31628"},"modified":"2018-04-29T09:50:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T16:50:58","slug":"zlatko-kranjcar-named-iran-u23-football-team-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/04\/29\/zlatko-kranjcar-named-iran-u23-football-team-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Zlatko Kranjcar named Iran U23 football team coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0 <strong>Ex-Persepolis and Sepahan coach has been named as new head coach of Iran U23 football team on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-body\">\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p>The 62-year-old Croatian coach has also coached Croatia and Montenegro national football teams.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-Iran captains Javad Nekounam and Ali Karimi, Foolad coach Sirous Pourmousavai and former Iran assistant Omid Namazi were also among the candidates to take charge of Iran U23 football team.<\/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>Ex-Iran and Persepolis midfielder Hamid Estili had been already named as new technical manager of Iran U23 football team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"players\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"box list-clean header-clean list-inline list-tags tags\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0 Ex-Persepolis and Sepahan coach has been named as new head coach&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,84,139,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31628","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":1755,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31628","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=31628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31630,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31628\/revisions\/31630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}