{"id":33885,"date":"2018-10-27T13:31:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T20:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33885"},"modified":"2018-10-27T13:31:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T20:31:32","slug":"esteghlal-set-to-sack-winfried-schaefer-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/10\/27\/esteghlal-set-to-sack-winfried-schaefer-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal set to sack Winfried Schaefer [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>German coach Winfried Schaefer is on the verge of sacking following Esteghlal\u2019s string of poor results in Iran Professional League and AFC Champions League.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal suffered their second defeat in 10 weeks in Iran league on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues lost to Sepahan in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium oand moved down to sixth place in the table.<\/p>\n<p>Under coaching of Schaefer, Esteghlal also failed to book a place in the AFC Champions League semi-finals after being defeated by Al Sadd of Qatar 5-3 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian media reports suggest that Schaefer is on the brink of being sacked by the Iranian football club.<\/p>\n<p>Schaefer will be reportedly sacked if Esteghlal lose to Saipa in Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup against Saipa.<\/p>\n<p>The 68-year-old coach replaced Alireza Mansourian last year and finished third with Esteghlal behind Persepolis and Zob Ahan.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, German coach Winfried Schaefer is on the verge of sacking following&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":33886,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division"],"views":639,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33885","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=33885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33887,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33885\/revisions\/33887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}