{"id":36621,"date":"2019-06-04T18:23:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T01:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36621"},"modified":"2019-06-04T18:23:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T01:23:43","slug":"wilmots-first-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/06\/04\/wilmots-first-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC: Wilmots\u2019 First Sight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Four months after the end of the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019, national teams from across Asia are making personnel changes both on the pitch and in the dugout. The-AFC.com looks at how Team Melli is approaching this international break.<\/strong><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new era is underway in Tehran after Carlos Queiroz\u2019s eight-year spell in charge of Team Melli ended with a disappointing AFC Asian Cup semi-final exit at the hands of Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking over is former Belgium and Cote d\u2019Ivoire boss Marc Wilmots. Having officially joined only on June 1, the 50-year-old is unlikely to have had the time to make squad selections. Instead, Wilmots has enlisted the services of former Iranian international forward Vahid Hashemian as his assistant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For his first match, the Belgian has a squad largely based on the last one picked by his predecessor. Iran will face Syrian in Tehran&#8217;s Azadi stadium. Persepolis\u2019 Ali Alipour has been brought in for the injured Sardar Azmoun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Islamic Republic of Iran last faced Syria in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, back in September 2017. The game at Azadi Stadium ended in a 2-2 draw, with the absent Azmoun netting both goals for Team Melli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five days after later, Team Melli will fly to Seoul to face South Korea on June 11th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; TEHRAN, Four months after the end of the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36621","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-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1927,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36621","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=36621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36625,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36621\/revisions\/36625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}