{"id":53567,"date":"2025-06-24T12:56:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T19:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=53567"},"modified":"2025-06-24T12:56:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T19:56:43","slug":"ricardo-sa-pinto-named-esteghlal-coach-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/06\/24\/ricardo-sa-pinto-named-esteghlal-coach-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricardo Sa Pinto named Esteghlal coach [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Portuguese head coach Ricardo Sa Pinto was named Esteghlal\u2019s head coach.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old coach took charge of Esteghlal in June 2022 but had to leave the club after receiving a four-month suspension from the Disciplinary Committee of the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI).<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this, Esteghlal had reached an agreement with Brazilian coach F\u00e1bio Carille, but the club later reversed its decision.<\/p>\n<p>Although Esteghlal recently won Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup under the leadership of Mojtaba Jabbari, the club hired Sa Pinto.<\/p>\n<p>Sa Pinto will travel to Tehran to finalize his contract in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Portuguese head coach Ricardo Sa Pinto was named Esteghlal\u2019s head coach. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":53568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,186,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-leagues-clubs","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":2846,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53567","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=53567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53569,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53567\/revisions\/53569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}