{"id":48447,"date":"2023-03-12T22:23:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T05:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=48447"},"modified":"2023-03-12T22:23:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T05:23:49","slug":"amir-ghalenoei-named-iran-football-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/03\/12\/amir-ghalenoei-named-iran-football-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Amir Ghalenoei named Iran football coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Amir Ghalenoei was named as the new head coach of Iran national football team on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He will lead Team Melli until the end of the 2023 AFC Asian Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Gol Gohar coach was rehired for a second spell as Iran coach. Ghalenoei led Iran&#8217;s national football team from August 2006 to July 2007. Iran was eliminated from the 2007 AFC Asian Cup after losing to South Korea in the penalty shootout in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Qatar coach Felix Sanchez was also a candidate to take charge of Team Melli but the Spaniard was appointed as Ecuador coach on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran are to host Russia on March 23 in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium in a friendly match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The football federation of Iran has not yet confirmed Ghalenoei\u2019s appointment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Amir Ghalenoei was named as the new head coach of Iran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":25326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2146,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48447","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=48447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48448,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48447\/revisions\/48448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}