{"id":48221,"date":"2023-02-17T08:55:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T16:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=48221"},"modified":"2023-02-17T08:55:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T16:55:37","slug":"afc-javad-nekounam-vying-for-continental-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/02\/17\/afc-javad-nekounam-vying-for-continental-title\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC: Javad Nekounam vying for continental title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Foolad coach Javad Nekounam is among the eight coaches in the AFC Champions League 2022 Round of 16 (West) who is looking towards the continental title.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The eight West Asian sides in action feature at the helm a diversity of tactical schools, with two Argentinians, a Chilean, a Spaniard, a Portuguese, a Greek, and two local coaches from Iran and Uzbekistan in the hot seats in the Round of 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only one of the eight managers to have experienced the AFC Champions League both as a player and a coach, Nekounam is one of Iran\u2019s finest footballers of all time, with 151 Team Melli caps to his name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a player, Nekounam was part of the Esteghlal side that reached the 2013 AFC Champions League semi-final, losing to Seoul 4-2 on aggregate, having previously also represented PAS Tehran in the 2005 edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His first attempt at the competition as a coach came last year with Foolad who finished bottom of the group with five points. This time around, he made no mistakes, with his side going unbeaten to top Group C and reach the Round of 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Foolad coach Javad Nekounam is among the eight coaches in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":48222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,179,164,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-foolad-khuzestan","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division"],"views":971,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48221","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=48221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48223,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48221\/revisions\/48223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}