{"id":37768,"date":"2019-10-16T16:55:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T23:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37768"},"modified":"2019-10-16T16:55:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T23:55:35","slug":"afshin-peyrovani-appointed-persepolis-sporting-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/10\/16\/afshin-peyrovani-appointed-persepolis-sporting-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Afshin Peyrovani appointed Persepolis sporting director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Ex-Team Melli and Persepolis defender Afshin Peyrovani has been appointed as Persepolis\u2019s sporting director.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He replaced Mohsen Khalili in the Iranian popular football club on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peyrovani, 47, is a familiar face for Persepolis\u2019s fans since he has played in the team for 11 years from 1993 to 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"569\" height=\"343\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snip20191016_7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snip20191016_7.png 569w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snip20191016_7-150x90.png 150w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snip20191016_7-350x211.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He also coached Persepolis for a while after the departure of Afshin Ghotbi in November 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peyrovani worked as sporting director of Iran national football team in 2016 but parted company with Team Melli after falling down with Carlos Queiroz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peyrovani has made 66 appearances for Iran national football team and represented the team at the 1998 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Ex-Team Melli and Persepolis defender Afshin Peyrovani has been appointed as Persepolis\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":37769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persepolis"],"views":884,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37768","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=37768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37771,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37768\/revisions\/37771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}