{"id":36495,"date":"2019-05-22T14:11:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T21:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36495"},"modified":"2019-05-22T14:11:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T21:11:15","slug":"belgiums-wilmots-signs-on-as-iran-coach-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/05\/22\/belgiums-wilmots-signs-on-as-iran-coach-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium&#8217;s Wilmots signs on as Iran coach [Confirmed]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>France 24 &#8211; BRUSSELS, <strong>Former Ivory Coast and Belgium manager Marc Wilmots signed a contract in Brussels on Wednesday to become coach of Iran following lengthy talks.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The contract was signed at the residence of the (Iran) ambassador between Mr. Wilmots and Mehdi Taj (the president of the Iranian football federation),&#8221; a diplomat at the embassy told AFP by telephone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former Belgian striker had travelled to Iran earlier this month and was expected to sign a $1.2 million (1 million euros) a year deal in Tehran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However the 50-year-old who was capped 70 times for his country returned to Belgium with no agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iranian news reports said the delay was caused by difficulties involved with &#8220;banking transfers.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The diplomat confirmed that the contract runs until the end of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilmots takes over from Portuguese coach Carlos Queiroz who stepped down after eight years in charge in January following Iran&#8217;s semi-final exit in the Asian Cup when they went down 3-0 to Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He led Iran to two World Cup finals and extended his contract to 2019 after the 2018 tournament in Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France 24 &#8211; BRUSSELS, Former Ivory Coast and Belgium manager Marc Wilmots signed a contract&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1689,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36495","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=36495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36497,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36495\/revisions\/36497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}