{"id":49202,"date":"2023-06-21T07:36:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T14:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=49202"},"modified":"2023-06-21T07:36:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T14:36:18","slug":"esteghlal-appoints-javad-nekounam-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2023\/06\/21\/esteghlal-appoints-javad-nekounam-as-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal appoints Javad Nekounam as head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal football club appointed former Iran captain Javad Nekounam as their new head coach on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nekounam started his coaching career in 2017 when he took charge of the first tier Khooneh be Khooneh. He has also led IPL clubs Nassaji and Foolad.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-Osasuna midfielder played for Esteghlal from 2012 to 2014 and scored eight goals in 44 matches for the Blues.<\/p>\n<p>Nekounam was a member of Iran national football team from 2000 to 2015 and represented Team Melli in the 2006 and 2014 FIFA World Cups.  <\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old coach replaced Portuguese trainer Ricardo Sa Pinto, who parted ways with Esteghlal at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Nekounam will be assisted by former Esteghlal players Mehdi Hasheminasab and Kianoush Rahmati.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal football club appointed former Iran captain Javad Nekounam as their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":49203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":1041,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49202","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=49202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49204,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49202\/revisions\/49204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}