{"id":39103,"date":"2020-04-20T19:25:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T02:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=39103"},"modified":"2020-04-20T19:25:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T02:25:15","slug":"de-biasi-reveals-he-was-close-to-leading-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/04\/20\/de-biasi-reveals-he-was-close-to-leading-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"De Biasi reveals he was close to leading Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; LEEDS, <strong>Italian coach Gianni De Biasi has revealed that he came close to leading Iran national football team but the negotiations broke down.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) had denied reports that it was in discussions with Giovanni &#8220;Gianni&#8221; De Biasi over Team Melli hot seat, but the coach has revealed that the Iranian federation had negotiated with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was close to taking over Iran,\u201d De Biasi told Football Italia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEverything changed last minute and in addition the coronavirus outbreak definitely closed things,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; LEEDS, Italian coach Gianni De Biasi has revealed that he came close to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":39104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39103","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-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":692,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39103","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=39103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39105,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39103\/revisions\/39105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}