{"id":34954,"date":"2019-01-11T17:49:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T01:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34954"},"modified":"2019-01-11T17:49:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T01:49:47","slug":"nelo-vingada-joins-irans-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/11\/nelo-vingada-joins-irans-coaching-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelo Vingada joins Iran\u2019s coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Iran U23 football coach Nelo Vingada has joined Team Melli coaching staff in the AFC Asian Cup underway in the UAE.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Portuguese coach has been voluntarily added to Iran staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli are preparing for the match against Vietnam in Group D after beating Yemen 5-0 in their first match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vingada is no stranger to the region\u2019s football as the 65-year-old coach has already coached Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iran U23 football teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vingada has also headed Iranian most-popular football team Persepolis in 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the 2014 Asian Games held in Incheon, South Korea, Iran lost 4\u20131 to Vietnam in their first match which was the team&#8217;s worst defeat in the tournament. They drew 1\u20131 with Kyrgyzstan in the next match, resulting in an early exit from the competition which was Iran&#8217;s worst result in the Asian Games since its establishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vingada had already worked as Carlos Queiroz\u2019s assistant during the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Iran U23 football coach Nelo Vingada has joined Team Melli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2143,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34954","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=34954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34956,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34954\/revisions\/34956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}