{"id":51486,"date":"2024-06-23T15:44:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T22:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=51486"},"modified":"2024-06-23T15:44:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T22:44:30","slug":"ex-napoli-coach-mazzarri-set-for-iranian-club-persepolis-fc-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/06\/23\/ex-napoli-coach-mazzarri-set-for-iranian-club-persepolis-fc-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Napoli coach Mazzarri set for Iranian club Persepolis FC [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Football-italia.net &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Napoli coach Walter Mazzarri has reportedly been lined up for a surprise new job with Iranian club Persepolis FC.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 62-year-old was on the short-list for the role and Sky Sport Italia claim that the decision has now been made, handing Mazzarri the reins.<\/p>\n<p>He had been in Serie A and the Champions League only this season, with an ill-fated return to Napoli from November 2023 to February 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The coach was sacked after six wins, three draws and eight defeats in all competitions on the Partenopei bench.<\/p>\n<p>New experience in Iran for Mazzarri<br \/>\nThis will be his second coaching role abroad, as he had 41 games at English club Watford in the 2016-17 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>His other jobs were at Livorno, Reggina, Sampdoria, Napoli, Inter, Torino and Cagliari.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis FC were only recently crowned Persian Gulf Pro League champions, but Brazilian coach Osmar Loss Vieira decided to return home after this victory.<\/p>\n<p>Mazzarri becomes the second Italian coach in Iran, as for a brief period Andrea Stramaccioni was at the helm of Esteghlal in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football-italia.net &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Napoli coach Walter Mazzarri has reportedly been lined up for a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":51487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,172,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-persepolis","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":1185,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51486","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=51486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51489,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51486\/revisions\/51489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}