{"id":46109,"date":"2022-06-21T18:43:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T01:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=46109"},"modified":"2022-06-21T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T01:44:00","slug":"ricardo-sa-pinto-takes-charge-of-esteghlal-%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/06\/21\/ricardo-sa-pinto-takes-charge-of-esteghlal-%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricardo Sa Pinto takes charge of Esteghlal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Portuguese football coach Ricardo Sa Pinto was appointed as new head coach of Iranian football club Esteghlal on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Blues won the title of the Iran league last season but their coach Farhad Majidi parted ways with the club to join Emirati club Ittihad Kalba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 49-year-old coach started his coaching career in Sporting CP in 2012 and has also worked as head coach Braga, Legia Warsaw, Red Star Belgrade, Atromitos, Vasco da Gama and Gaziantep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sa Pinto had most recently worked in Moreirense as head coach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sa Pinto has penned a one-year contract with Esteghlal with the option of a further year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Portuguese football coach Ricardo Sa Pinto was appointed as new head&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":46110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46109","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":1755,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46109","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=46109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46112,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46109\/revisions\/46112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}