{"id":32811,"date":"2018-07-19T09:51:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T16:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32811"},"modified":"2018-07-19T09:51:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T16:51:18","slug":"amirhossein-fathi-named-esteghlals-acting-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/07\/19\/amirhossein-fathi-named-esteghlals-acting-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Amirhossein Fathi named Esteghlal\u2019s acting president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Amirhossein Fathi has been named as acting president of Esteghlal football club on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fathi replaced Reza Eftekhari in Tehran-based football team.<\/p>\n<p>Eftekhari, who stepped down as General Manager of Esteghlal on Wednesday, was the target of considerable fan dissatisfaction due to his side\u2019s failure to challenge for the Iran Professional League title.<\/p>\n<p>Under leadership of Eftekhari, Esteghlal have yet to extend the contracts of Senegalese striker Mame Baba Thiam and Uzbek iconic midfielder Server Djeparov.<\/p>\n<p>Defensive midfielder Omid Ebrahimi has left the team for Qatar\u2019s Al Ahli and the Blues are yet to really make an eye-catching transfer in the summer transfer window.  <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Iran Football League Organization also awarded Iran\u2019s Super Cup title to Esteghlal arch-rivals Persepolis after they withdrew from the match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Amirhossein Fathi has been named as acting president of Esteghlal football&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-c20-other-news"],"views":605,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32811","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=32811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32813,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32811\/revisions\/32813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}