{"id":48889,"date":"2023-05-10T19:11:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T02:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=48889"},"modified":"2023-05-10T19:11:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T02:11:44","slug":"ghotbi-new-candidate-for-iran-u23-football-team-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/05\/10\/ghotbi-new-candidate-for-iran-u23-football-team-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghotbi new candidate for Iran U23 football team [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Ex-Persepolis football team head coach Afshin Ghotbi has been named as a candidate to take charge of coachless Iran U23 football team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U23 team director Habib Kashani has previously worked with Ghotbi in Persepolis, where the Iranian-American coach inspired the giants club to a title in domestic league in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Ghotbi, 59, has also worked as head coach in Iran national football team and Foolad club. He is currently the coach of Vancouver FC who play in the Canadian Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Paykan coach Mojtaba Hosseini and Zob Ahan trainer Mehdi Tartar are also two candidates to lead the team.<\/p>\n<p>Mehdi Mahdavikia resigned from his post as head coach of the U23 team in October 2022 and the team are without a coach with four months remaining until the 2024 AFC U23 Asian Cup qualification.<\/p>\n<p>The competition will be held from Sept. 4 to 12 in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 AFC U23 Asian Cup will act as the AFC qualifiers for the 2024 Paris Olympics men\u2019s football tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Ex-Persepolis football team head coach Afshin Ghotbi has been named as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":48890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,84,139,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-u23","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u23","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":891,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48889","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=48889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48891,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48889\/revisions\/48891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}