{"id":37827,"date":"2019-10-25T18:56:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T01:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37827"},"modified":"2019-10-25T18:56:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T01:56:23","slug":"poya-asbaghi-on-barnsleys-list-of-contenders-for-managerial-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/10\/25\/poya-asbaghi-on-barnsleys-list-of-contenders-for-managerial-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Poya Asbaghi on Barnsley&#8217;s list of contenders for managerial role"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sky Sports &#8211; YORKSHIRE, <strong>IFK Gothenburg head coach Poya Asbaghi is one of the names under consideration to become the next manager of Barnsley, Sky Sports News understands,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tykes are still seeking a replacement for Daniel Stendel, who was sacked almost three weeks ago, and interim boss Adam Murray remains in the running to take over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Asbaghi, who has been in charge of the Allsvenskan side since the start of the 2018 season, has emerged as a contender to become the new boss at Oakwell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran-born Asbaghi had a tough first season with the former giants of Swedish football as they finished outside the top 10 of their domestic league and managed only 31 points in their 30 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has fared better in 2019 with IFK sitting in seventh place two games from the end of their league campaign &#8211; they can finish no lower and could reach the top six if results go their way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asbaghi is yet to manage outside Sweden, having previously taken charge of Dalkurd FF and Gefle IF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barnsley remain winless since the opening day of the Sky Bet Championship season but Murray has at least halted their form slide by overseeing draws against high-flying Swansea and West Brom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stendel was fired on October 8 after a run of 11 games without a win in all competitions &#8211; eight of those matches had ended in defeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They remain bottom of the table with eight points from 13 games ahead of their Yorkshire derby with Huddersfield Town on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sky Sports &#8211; YORKSHIRE, IFK Gothenburg head coach Poya Asbaghi is one of the names&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":37828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,89,91,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":1198,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37827","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=37827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37829,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37827\/revisions\/37829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}