{"id":39033,"date":"2020-04-10T10:22:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T17:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=39033"},"modified":"2020-04-10T10:22:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T17:22:40","slug":"ffiri-denies-rumours-linking-gabriel-calderon-to-team-melli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/04\/10\/ffiri-denies-rumours-linking-gabriel-calderon-to-team-melli\/","title":{"rendered":"FFIRI denies rumours linking Gabriel Calderon to Team Melli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) has denied speculations about linking the federation to Argentine coach Gabriel Calderon.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iranian media has reported that FFIRI is going to appoint the former Persepolis coach as new head coach of Team Melli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The federation appointed Skocic as replacement of Marc Wilmots who stepped down from his role after six matches in charge in early December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The federation was under pressure for choosing the Croat since the critics believed that the it had to appoint a great name. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Newly-appointed Secretary General of the FFIRI Mehdi Mohammad Nabi said the head coach of Team Melli will continue his job. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen the situation returns to normal after the coronavirus outbreak, Skocic will return to Iran to lead Team Melli. He will stay as Iran coach,\u201d Nabi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran were originally scheduled to play Hong Kong and Cambodia in March and Iraq and Bahrain in June but the competition has postponed due to coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran sit third in Group C five points behind Iraq in FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) has denied speculations about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":39034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":637,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39033","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=39033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39035,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39033\/revisions\/39035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}