{"id":33558,"date":"2018-09-29T09:13:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T16:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33558"},"modified":"2018-09-29T09:13:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T16:13:23","slug":"louis-van-gaal-to-replace-carlos-queiroz-as-iran-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/09\/29\/louis-van-gaal-to-replace-carlos-queiroz-as-iran-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis van Gaal to replace Carlos Queiroz as Iran coach?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0 <strong>Former Bayern Munich and Manchester United coach coach Louis van Gaal will reportedly travel to Iran for Team Melli coaching job.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>T-online.de reported that Louis van Gaal will have two job offers in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>According to German media reports, he could succeed Carlos Queiroz as coach of the Iranian national football team. The Portuguese current deal expires in February.<\/p>\n<p>The 67-year-old coach is also a possible candidate to take charge of Iranian football club Tractor Sazi Tabriz, currently the richest club in the first Iranian league.<\/p>\n<p>The Tabriz-based football team have recently parted company with Welshman John Toshack.<\/p>\n<p>They have penned contract with Iran national football team captains Masoud Shojaei, Ashkan Dejagah and Ehsan Haji Safi but are sixth in the table, four points behind leader Padideh.<\/p>\n<p>Louis van Gaal led the Netherlands to the third place at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and was appointed as the new manager for Manchester United on a three-year contract after the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman started his coaching career at Ajax in 1991 and has already coached Barcelona, AZ and Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n<p>On 17 January 2017 it was announced that Van Gaal had retired &#8220;for family reasons&#8221;. He later said that it was only a sabbatical.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0 Former Bayern Munich and Manchester United coach coach Louis van Gaal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2918,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33558","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33560,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33558\/revisions\/33560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}