{"id":45106,"date":"2022-02-23T13:52:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T21:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=45106"},"modified":"2022-02-23T13:52:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T21:52:53","slug":"hamid-estili-announced-as-team-melli-football-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/02\/23\/hamid-estili-announced-as-team-melli-football-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamid Estili announced as Team Melli football director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Hamid Estili was named as the new director of the Iran national football team.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, he replaced Mojtaba Khorshidi in the position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khorshidi had been appointed as Iran director in April 2021 but&nbsp;his appointment had attracted controversy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamid Estili, a former Team Melli and Persepolis midfielder, has previously worked as director of Iran&#8217;s U-23 football team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran Football Federation President Shahaboddin Azizi Khadem was removed from his role last week by members of the board of directors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The federation is currently being led\u00a0by Mirshad Majedi as caretaker president until an extraordinary assembly is held.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Hamid Estili was named as the new director of the Iran national&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":45108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1536,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45106","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=45106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45109,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45106\/revisions\/45109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}