{"id":36380,"date":"2019-05-14T12:31:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T19:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36380"},"modified":"2019-05-14T12:31:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T19:31:27","slug":"marc-wilmots-to-finalize-iran-deal-on-wednesday-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/05\/14\/marc-wilmots-to-finalize-iran-deal-on-wednesday-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Wilmots to finalize Iran deal on Wednesday [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>An unnamed Iran football federation official said that ex-Belgium coach Marc Wilmots will travel to Tehran on Wednesday to finalize his deal.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will reportedly pay the 50-year-old coach and his two Belgian assistants $1,500,000 per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranian federation also wants former Team Melli captain Javad Nekounam to be a member of the coaching staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some Iranian media reported that Wilmots has traveled to Iran but a top official from the Iran football federation said the Belgian coach has not yet come to Tehran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parliament Member Mohammad Reza Tabesh has also said Wilmots will most likely pen a contract with the Iranian federation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Belgian led his homeland to the 2014 World Cup and Euro 2016, but was sacked after that tournament in France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilmots, who is also on the Scotland&#8217;s list of candidates, is set to replace Carlos Querioz in Team Melli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has been without a team after leaving the Ivory Coast coaching position in November 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilmots will start his work as Iran coach in two friendly matches against Syria and South Korea, scheduled for June 6 and 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, An unnamed Iran football federation official said that ex-Belgium coach Marc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":807,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36380","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=36380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36382,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36380\/revisions\/36382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}