{"id":52029,"date":"2024-10-01T19:10:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T02:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=52029"},"modified":"2024-10-01T19:10:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T02:10:01","slug":"javad-nekounam-steps-down-as-esteghlal-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2024\/10\/01\/javad-nekounam-steps-down-as-esteghlal-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Javad Nekounam steps down as Esteghlal coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Javad Nekounam stepped down from his role as the head coach of Iran\u2019s Esteghlal football team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He resigned from his post following a 2-0 loss against Al Sadd of Qatar in the 2024-25 AFC Champions League Elite.<\/p>\n<p>Nekounam had stepped down from his role after losing to Persepolis in Tehran derby last week but the board of directors disagreed with the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal showed a poor performance in Doha and Nekounam said he would not continue as the team\u2019s head coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Javad Nekounam stepped down from his role as the head coach of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":52030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":1789,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52029","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=52029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52031,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52029\/revisions\/52031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}