{"id":36538,"date":"2019-05-27T09:15:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T16:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36538"},"modified":"2019-05-27T09:15:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T16:15:46","slug":"wilmots-to-start-as-team-melli-coach-on-tuesday-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/05\/27\/wilmots-to-start-as-team-melli-coach-on-tuesday-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilmots to start as Team Melli coach on Tuesday [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Belgium and Ivory Coast coach Marc Wilmots will start his job as new head coach of Iran national football team on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 50-year-old coach signed a contract with Iran football federation last week in Brussels, Belgium amid growing speculations over his future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former Belgian striker has reportedly signed a $1.2 million (1 million euros) a year deal with Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The contract runs until the end of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilmots took 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>Wilmots will start his work as Iran coach in two friendly matches against Syria and South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran, who are top AFC team in the FIFA rankings at No. 21, will host Syria in Tehran on June 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli will also face South Korea five days later at World Cup Stadium in Seoul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran are preparing for the 2022 World Cup qualifiers that begin in the second half of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Belgium and Ivory Coast coach Marc Wilmots will start his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36538","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"],"views":1696,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36538","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=36538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36540,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36538\/revisions\/36540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}