{"id":38598,"date":"2020-02-04T17:03:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T01:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=38598"},"modified":"2020-02-04T17:03:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T01:03:49","slug":"iran-football-federation-needs-courage-choosing-new-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/02\/04\/iran-football-federation-needs-courage-choosing-new-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran football federation needs courage choosing new head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) is clearly in a dilemma about how to choose the new head coach for Team Melli. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The federation needs courage to make the best decision since the Team have difficult job ahead to book a place at the final stage of the 2022 World Cup qualification. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sepahan coach Amir Ghalenoei is a \npotential candidate to take charge of Team Melli but the Iranian club \ndon\u2019t let him to leave the team since the Yellows are in a tight title \nrace in Iran Professional League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, Sepahan will have to \nparticipate in the 2020 AFC Champions League, where the team have been \ndrawn along with Qatari giants Al Sadd, Al Nassr of Saudi Arabia and \nEmirati outfit Al Ain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ghalenoei had an unsuccessful stint in \nIran from 2006 to 2008. Under stewardship of the coach, Iran failed to \nbook a place at the 2007 AFC Asian Cup semis after losing to Korea \nRepublic on penalties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once bitten, twice shy; the federation \nshould not make the same mistakes they did several years ago, since Team\n Melli have a difficult task ahead. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vahid Hashemian is being considered for \nthe job as well. The ex-Iran striker was Marc Wilmots\u2019s assistant and is\n well-informed about the team\u2019s condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former Bayern Munich forward has \ngained B and A coaching licenses when playing in Germany, however, it\u2019s \nnoteworthy that he is an inexperienced coach and needs more support to \nbring success to Team Melli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will have four must-win matches in late March and early June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli will entertain Hong Kong on March 26 in Tehran and meet Cambodia five days later in an away match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Persians will face Bahrain and Iraq on June 4 and 9 in Tehran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran, who are going to continue their \nquest for a sixth World Cup appearance, sit five points behind leaders \nIraq in Group C but having played one game fewer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, The Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) is clearly in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1143,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38598","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38600,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38598\/revisions\/38600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}