{"id":38418,"date":"2020-01-13T14:19:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T22:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=38418"},"modified":"2020-01-13T14:19:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T22:19:39","slug":"yahya-golmohammadi-named-persepolis-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/01\/13\/yahya-golmohammadi-named-persepolis-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahya Golmohammadi named Persepolis coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Ex-Iran captain Yahya Golmohammadi has been appointed as new head coach of Persepolis football team on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Golmohammadi parted ways with Shahr Khodro football club by mutual consent on Monday and took charge of Persepolis. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 49-year-old coach has replaced Argentine coach Gabriel Calderon who didn\u2019t return to Persepolis after the Iranian club failed to meet his expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under stewardship of Calderon, the Reds sit three points clear at the top of the table. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his second stint in Persepolis, Golmohammadi has a difficult task ahead since the Reds have won Iran Professional League (IPL) in the past three years and are looking forward to achieving the trophy for the fourth time in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yahya Golmohammadi is mostly remembered for his tears after scoring against Republic of Ireland in the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA\u2013AFC play-off). He burst into&nbsp;<em>tears<\/em>&nbsp;after the final whistle in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium, since Team Melli failed to book a place to the 2002 World Cup because they had lost to the Greens 2-0 five days earlier in Dublin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Golmohammadi, who has also played for Persepolis for seven years, started his coaching career in Saba in 2008 and has also coached Tractor, Nassaji, Zob Ahan and Naft Tehran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Ex-Iran captain Yahya Golmohammadi has been appointed as new head coach&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":38419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,172,87,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persepolis","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":811,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38418","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=38418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38420,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38418\/revisions\/38420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}