{"id":36877,"date":"2019-06-29T10:53:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T17:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36877"},"modified":"2019-06-29T10:53:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T17:53:25","slug":"iran-is-safe-beautiful-marc-wilmots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/06\/29\/iran-is-safe-beautiful-marc-wilmots\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran is safe, beautiful: Marc Wilmots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>IFP News &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Marc Wilmots, the new Belgian manager of Iran\u2019s national football team, better known as Team Melli, describes Iran as a safe and beautiful country a few weeks after his arrival.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an interview with a Belgian TV channel, Wilmots underlined that during his stay in Iran over the past weeks, he has not faced any instance of insecurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He described Iran\u2019s conditions as good and added when the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic offered him the leadership of Iran\u2019s Team Melli, he found out that the Iranians have a long-term plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy journey to Asia after years of coaching in Europe was a new experience. I made a tour of Iran\u2019s sports facilities which gave me an extraordinary experience,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Belgian coach described Iran as a safe and beautiful country and said unlike what is rumoured worldwide, there is no war or insecurity in Iran. \u201cI\u2019ve never ever experienced a slight trace of insecurity in Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on a contract, Wilmots is set to lead the Iranian team for the next three years. The 50-year-old coach has so far led several national football teams across the world. He is going to lead the Iranian team during the Qatar 2022 World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports say his deal is signed for a fee of $1.2 million a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IFP News &#8211; TEHRAN, Marc Wilmots, the new Belgian manager of Iran\u2019s national football team,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2233,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36877","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=36877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36879,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36877\/revisions\/36879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}