{"id":36290,"date":"2019-05-05T18:57:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T01:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36290"},"modified":"2019-05-05T18:57:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T01:57:38","slug":"zlatko-kranjcar-sacked-as-iran-u23-football-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/05\/05\/zlatko-kranjcar-sacked-as-iran-u23-football-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Zlatko Kranjcar sacked as Iran U23 football coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Zlatko Kranjcar has been fired as head coach of Iran U23 football team on Sunday after one year in charge.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ex-Persepolis and Sepahan coach was named as the head coach of the Iranian team in last year\u2019s April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 62-year-old Croatian, who has also coached Croatia and Montenegro national football teams, replaced Amirhossein Peyrovani in the Iran U23 football team<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran, a powerhouse of the Asian football, have not been in the Olympics since the 1976 games in Munich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Persians earned a spot in the AFC U23 Championship Thailand 2020 Final in late March but the Iranian officials are not satisfied with the way Iran qualified for the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranian media reports suggest that an Iranian coach will replace Kranjcar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Padideh coach Yahya Golmohammadi is a candidate to lead the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2020 AFC U23 Championship will be held in Thailand from Jan. 8 to 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 16 teams will compete in the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will act as the AFC qualifiers for the Olympic football tournament. The top three teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics men&#8217;s football tournament in Japan as the AFC representatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Zlatko Kranjcar has been fired as head coach of Iran U23&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,84,92,139,156,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-u23","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-irans-u23","category-olympics","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1167,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36290","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=36290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36292,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36290\/revisions\/36292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}