{"id":43403,"date":"2021-08-31T19:03:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T02:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43403"},"modified":"2021-08-31T19:03:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T02:03:37","slug":"mahdavikia-becomes-head-coach-of-iran-u23-football-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/08\/31\/mahdavikia-becomes-head-coach-of-iran-u23-football-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahdavikia becomes head coach of Iran U23 football team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mehr News &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The former player and captain of the Iranian national football team signed a contract with the Iran football federation to become the head coach of Iran U23 football team.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mehdi Mahdavikia went to the Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran&nbsp;(FFIRI) on Tuesday to sign a contract to lead&nbsp;the Iranian Under-23 national football team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former Iranian international player, who played for&nbsp;German clubs&nbsp;VfL Bochum,&nbsp;Hamburger SV&nbsp;and&nbsp;Eintracht Frankfurt in the past, received the decree from the FFIRI president Shahabuddin Azizi Khadem&nbsp;to become the new head coach of the&nbsp;23 football team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mahdavikia was also agreed to work as the technical advisor with the Iran football federation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mehdi Mahdavikia used to play for the national men&#8217;s&nbsp;football team as the right-winger&nbsp;or full-back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mehr News &#8211; TEHRAN, The former player and captain of the Iranian national football team&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":43404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,84,92,91,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-u23","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1039,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43403","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=43403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43405,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43403\/revisions\/43405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}