{"id":48036,"date":"2023-01-27T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=48036"},"modified":"2023-01-27T08:09:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T16:09:01","slug":"hector-cuper-nominated-to-lead-team-melli-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/01\/27\/hector-cuper-nominated-to-lead-team-melli-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Hector Cuper nominated to lead Team Melli [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Argentine coach Hector Cuper has been reportedly nominated to take charge of Iran&#8217;s national football team.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran football federation has negotiated with the 67-year-old coach, Kooora.com reported. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cuper was sacked by DR Congo after a poor start to the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying in June 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coach has had spells in charge of Valencia, Inter Milan, and Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran was headed by Carlos Queiroz in the 2022 FIFA World Cup but the federation didn\u2019t renew the Portuguese coach\u2019s contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the leadership of Queiroz, Team Melli suffered two defeats against England and the U.S. and earned a win over Wales, and failed to book a place in the knockout stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Argentine coach Hector Cuper has been reportedly nominated to take charge&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":48037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1933,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48036","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=48036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48038,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48036\/revisions\/48038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}