{"id":47094,"date":"2022-10-03T08:36:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T15:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=47094"},"modified":"2022-10-05T17:07:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T00:07:10","slug":"mahdavikia-steps-down-as-head-coach-of-iran-u23-report-%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/10\/03\/mahdavikia-steps-down-as-head-coach-of-iran-u23-report-%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahdavikia steps down as head coach of Iran U23 [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Mehdi Mahdavikia has implicitly resigned from his post as head coach of Iran U23 football team.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He shared a message on his Instagram story on Monday, declaring he has no relationship with the Iran football federation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The football federation also seems to be reluctant to work with Mahdavikia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the guidance of Mahdavikia, Iran showed a poor performance in the 2022 AFC U23 Asian Cup and failed to qualify for the next stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran lost to Turkmenistan and were held by Qatar and Uzbekistan in Group A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Mehdi Mahdavikia has implicitly resigned from his post as head coach&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":47095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,90,84,92,139,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47094","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-irans-u23","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":1158,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47094","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=47094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47113,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47094\/revisions\/47113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}