{"id":41141,"date":"2020-12-10T13:08:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=41141"},"modified":"2020-12-10T13:08:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:08:25","slug":"everton-eye-role-for-iran-legend-ali-daei-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/12\/10\/everton-eye-role-for-iran-legend-ali-daei-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Everton eye role for Iran legend Ali Daei [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Sun &#8211; LONDON, <strong>Everton are considering a senior role for Iranian legend Ali Daei, according to reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former\u00a0Bayern Munich\u00a0striker\u00a0holds the all-time international goalscoring record, with 109 in 149 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He won the Bundesliga title with Bayern in 1999, and has also played for Hertha Berlin and Arminia Bielefeld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daei has coached the Iran national side, as well as six clubs in the football-mad Middle East nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports in Germany now claim\u00a0Everton\u00a0are in talks with the 51-year-old about working together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Club owner Farhad Moshiri, 65, was born in Iran before moving to the UK in the late Seventies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>World-respected magazine Kicker said rumours are rife that Daei will land a role at Goodison Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boss\u00a0Carlo Ancelotti&#8217;s\u00a0position is not thought to be under threat, although the Toffees have slumped to ninth after heading the Premier League table earlier this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daei currently runs his own sportswear company.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His last management job, with Tehran club Saipa, ended last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But a source close to the former Iran captain said: &#8220;His ambition remains undiminished.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daei was an unused sub as Manchester United famously scored twice late on to beat Bayern 2-1 in the 1999 Champions League final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He played for Iranian sides Persepolis, Saba Battery and Saipa, as well as clubs in Qatar and the UAE, before hanging up his boots in 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sun &#8211; LONDON, Everton are considering a senior role for Iranian legend Ali Daei,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":41142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,89,91,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1482,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41141","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=41141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41143,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41141\/revisions\/41143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}