{"id":48694,"date":"2023-04-07T12:02:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=48694"},"modified":"2023-04-07T12:02:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:02:05","slug":"ricardo-sa-pinto-remains-committed-to-esteghlal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/04\/07\/ricardo-sa-pinto-remains-committed-to-esteghlal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricardo Sa Pinto remains committed to Esteghlal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal coach Ricardo Sa Pinto says he is \u201ccompletely here\u201d at the team despite concerns about his future amid the club\u2019s struggles this season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Blues faced a one-season AFC Champions League (ACL) ban for unpaid debts. It is for the second straight year that the Iranian giants face ACL\u2019s exclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal currently face financial difficulties and the coaching staff and the players are dissatisfied after their salaries have been delayed.   <\/p>\n<p>Despite all hardships, the Portuguese coach is going to stay with Esteghlal whereas he could have terminated his contract due to his unpaid payment.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal are favorites to defend their title at the Iran football league as the team sit second, three points adrift of leaders Sepahan.<\/p>\n<p>Sa Pinto has promised to remain committed to his players and fans until the end of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal coach Ricardo Sa Pinto says he is \u201ccompletely here\u201d at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":48695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,164,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division"],"views":759,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48694","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=48694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48696,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48694\/revisions\/48696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}