{"id":38986,"date":"2020-04-03T18:02:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T01:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=38986"},"modified":"2020-04-03T18:02:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T01:02:32","slug":"persepolis-and-esteghlal-to-focus-on-domestic-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/04\/03\/persepolis-and-esteghlal-to-focus-on-domestic-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis and Esteghlal to focus on domestic talent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN,<strong> Iran\u2019s Sports and Youth Ministry has reportedly told football clubs Persepolis and Esteghlal to stop hiring foreign coaches and players from now on.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two Iranian clubs could be banned from signing players for several transfer windows after they failed to pay the wage of their coaches and players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The clubs\u2019 debts stand at almost USD 4 million and they are unable to pay off debts. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States has imposed a new set of sanctions against Iran and the state-run clubs have come under heavy pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While no official announcement has been made regarding what will happen to the clubs, the media reports suggest that Iran&#8217;s Minister of Sport and Youth Masoud Soltanifar is going to ban Persepolis and Esteghlal from hiring foreigners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran\u2019s Sports and Youth Ministry has reportedly told football clubs Persepolis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":28526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,164,136,172,87,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","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":544,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38986","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=38986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38987,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38986\/revisions\/38987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}