{"id":39876,"date":"2020-08-01T10:03:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T17:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=39876"},"modified":"2020-08-01T10:03:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T17:03:55","slug":"calderon-declines-to-attend-persepoliss-title-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/08\/01\/calderon-declines-to-attend-persepoliss-title-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Calderon declines invitation to Persepolis\u2019s title celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Persepolis coach, Gabriele Calderon, declined to participate in the Reds\u2019 league title celebration in Tehran, due to the global crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis\u2019 directors have decided to invite the former coaches of the team, namely Branko Ivankovic and Gabriele Calderon, in title celebration after the Iranian giants clinched the 2019-20 Iran Professional League (IPL) season for the fourth time in a row with four matches to spare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ivankovic, while congratulating Persepolis fans and players, rejected the invitation because of his financial problems with the club\u2019s authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Calderon also saluted the winning team and thanked the club directors for inviting him for the title celebration but declined to travel to Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very happy because of this fourth championship for Persepolis! And so proud of the invitation for the title celebration, I would really love to share my feelings with the member boards, the fans, and this fantastic group of players in this successful moment,\u201d Calderon posted on his Instagram account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Argentine coach refused to travel to Iran and referred to the coronavirus pandemic as an explanation for not coming to the Persepolis title ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, the actual global situation caused by the Covid-19 makes it totally impossible traveling and being in crowded spaces so I am forced to decline it and congratulate all of you from the distance. CONGRATULATIONS CHAMPIONS!!!!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Calderon, 60, parted ways with Persepolis in January after six months in charge due to the club failing to pay his salary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Argentinean has declared that he is ready to negotiate with the Persepolis football club over his unpaid salaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Persepolis coach, Gabriele Calderon, declined to participate in the Reds\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":39877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,91,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-c20-other-news","category-persepolis"],"views":368,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39876","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=39876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39879,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39876\/revisions\/39879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}