{"id":37646,"date":"2019-10-06T07:08:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T14:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37646"},"modified":"2019-10-06T07:08:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T14:08:09","slug":"hamid-estili-appointed-iran-u-23-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/10\/06\/hamid-estili-appointed-iran-u-23-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamid Estili appointed Iran U-23 coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Ex-Team Melli midfielder Hamid Estili was appointed as the new head coach of Iran\u2019s U-23 football team.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farhad Majidi stepped down as his role on Thursday, saying he was not satisfied with his condition in the U-23 football team since some people interfered in his work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Majidi had been named as the U-23 coach in June as a replacement for Zlatko Kranjcar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran has been drawn in Group C of the 2020 AFC U23 Championship along with Uzbekistan, China and South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The competition will be held in Thailand from January 8 to 26 and 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Ex-Team Melli midfielder Hamid Estili was appointed as the new head coach&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":37647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,84,92,139,156,91,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-u23","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-irans-u23","category-olympics","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1014,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37646","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=37646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37648,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37646\/revisions\/37648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}