{"id":48266,"date":"2023-02-21T13:46:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T21:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=48266"},"modified":"2023-02-21T13:46:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T21:46:44","slug":"ffiri-iran-u-23-coach-candidates-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/02\/21\/ffiri-iran-u-23-coach-candidates-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"FFIRI: Iran U-23 coach candidates revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Six candidates for taking charge of the Iran U-23 football team have been confirmed by the Iran football federation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In December 2022, Habib Kashani, former general manager of Persepolis club, was appointed as director of the U-23 football team but the head coach has not yet been introduced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mehdi Mahdavikia resigned from his post as head coach of the U-23 team in&nbsp;October 2022. Under his leadership, Iran showed a poor performance in the 2022 AFC U-23 Asian Cup and failed to qualify for the next stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, the federation is going to appoint the U-23 head coach in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Iran forwards Vahid Hashemian, Rasoul Khatibi, and Farhad Majidi, as well as ex-Persepolis coach Hamid Derakhshan, former Paykan forward Saeid Daghighi, and former Sepahan coach Moharram Navidkia are the candidates who have been shortlisted to lead the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Six candidates for taking charge of the Iran U-23 football team have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":48267,"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-48266","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":1103,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48266","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=48266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48268,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48266\/revisions\/48268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}