{"id":40603,"date":"2020-10-05T08:57:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T15:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40603"},"modified":"2020-10-05T08:57:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T15:57:37","slug":"mahmoud-fekri-named-esteghlal-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/10\/05\/mahmoud-fekri-named-esteghlal-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahmoud Fekri named Esteghlal coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Mahmoud Fekri was named Esteghlal football team head coach.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 51-year-old coach replaced interim coach Majid Namjoo Motlagh in the Tehran based football team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fekri was named as Nassaji coach in February as Reza Mohajeri\u2019s replacement and helped them avoid relegation at the end of the 2019-20 Iran Professional League season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal had been linked with former Werder Bremen coach Alexander Nouri but they failed to reach an agreement with the German-Iranian coach due to financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal, as one of the Iranian popular teams, have not won a league title since 2013 and they are determined to end their title drought after eight years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fekri has already played in Esteghlal for 13 years over two stints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Mahmoud Fekri was named Esteghlal football team head coach. The 51-year-old&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":765,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40603","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=40603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40605,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40603\/revisions\/40605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}