{"id":39271,"date":"2020-05-17T09:21:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T16:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=39271"},"modified":"2020-05-17T09:22:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T16:22:38","slug":"ex-iran-coach-marc-wilmots-awaits-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/05\/17\/ex-iran-coach-marc-wilmots-awaits-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Iran coach Marc Wilmots awaits verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; BRUSSELS, <strong>Former Iran national football team head coach Marc Wilmots says that he has filed a complaint against Iran to FIFA and is waiting for the verdict.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Belgian left his position as coach of Iran after six matches in charge in early December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilmots was appointed in May to lead Iran in their quest for a sixth World Cup appearance after Carlos Queiroz had secured back-to-back qualifications for the first time in the country\u2019s history, however he terminated his agreement with Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) seven months later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve filed a complaint against Iran to FIFA. The case is running and I am waiting for the verdict,\u201d said Wilmots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under coaching of Wilmots, Iran defeated minnows Hong Kong and Cambodia in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers but lost to Bahrain and Iraq in Group C that left Iran in the third place in the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FFIRI Secretary General Mehdi Mohammad Nabi had previously hit out at Wilmots, accusing him of being irresponsible about his team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs I\u2019ve already said, Wilmots was just looking for money and was irresponsible about Iran national football team,\u201d Nabi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWilmots has filed a complaint to FIFA to get his full payment but we should not give him money for his irresponsibility. He left his job half-finished,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; BRUSSELS, Former Iran national football team head coach Marc Wilmots says that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":39272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":590,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39271","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=39271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39274,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39271\/revisions\/39274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}