{"id":40802,"date":"2020-10-30T10:32:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T17:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40802"},"modified":"2020-10-30T10:32:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T17:32:35","slug":"jafar-samiei-named-persepolis-gm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/10\/30\/jafar-samiei-named-persepolis-gm\/","title":{"rendered":"Jafar Samiei named Persepolis GM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Jafar Samiei was appointed as Persepolis football club General Manager.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He replaced Mehdi Rasoul-Panah who was working as the club acting general manager from March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rasoul-Panah was forced to retire after a video of him insulting Persepolis player and coach went viral on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under his management, Persepolis club paid former coach Branko Ivankovic\u2019s debt and the team won Iran Professional League title for the fourth time in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis also booked their spot in the 2020 AFC Champions League final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Persepolis defenders Shoja Khalilzadeh and Mohammad Naderi left the team ahead of the Iran league and ACL final and it left the fans furious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samiei most recently served as Director of Security of Iran\u2019s Sports Ministry. He appointed former Persepolis defender Ebrahim Shakouri as the club\u2019s executive director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shakouri has most recently worked as Iran football federation secretary general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Jafar Samiei was appointed as Persepolis football club General Manager. He&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,91,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40802","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":551,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802","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=40802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40804,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802\/revisions\/40804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}