{"id":36423,"date":"2019-05-18T09:39:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T16:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36423"},"modified":"2019-05-18T09:39:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T16:39:09","slug":"yahya-golmohammadi-named-iran-u23-football-coach-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/05\/18\/yahya-golmohammadi-named-iran-u23-football-coach-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahya Golmohammadi named Iran U23 football coach [Official]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Yahya Golmohammadi has been named as Iran U-23 football team head coach, Mehdi Taj, the president of the Football Federation of Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI), announced that.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Golmohammadi made history this season, sending Padideh to the 2020 AFC Champions League for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, Taj says he has reached an agreement with Golmohammadi to part ways with Padideh to take charge of Iran U23 football team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Golmohammadi will replace Zlatko Kranjcar who was fired as head coach of Iran U23 football team in early May after one year in charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Persians earned a spot in the AFC U23 Championship Thailand 2020 Final in late March under coaching of the 62-year-old Croat but the Iranian officials are not satisfied with the way Iran qualified for the tournament.<\/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>The competition will be the fourth edition of the AFC U23 Championship, the biennial international age-restricted football championship organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men&#8217;s under-23 national teams of Asia. The tournament will be held from Jan. 8 to 26, 2020 in Thailand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Yahya Golmohammadi has been named as Iran U-23 football team head&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,84,139,91,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-u23","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u23","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":410,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36423","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=36423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36425,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36423\/revisions\/36425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}