{"id":53581,"date":"2025-06-30T19:06:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T02:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=53581"},"modified":"2025-06-30T19:06:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T02:06:41","slug":"persepolis-and-ismail-kartal-part-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/06\/30\/persepolis-and-ismail-kartal-part-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis and \u0130smail Kartal part ways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>\u0130smail Kartal, who served as Persepolis\u2019 third coach after Juan Carlos Garrido and later Karim Baghri last season, has parted ways with the Iranian club.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Turkish coach had hoped to achieve a major success to bring peace of mind to the fans, but he will not return to Tehran due to family reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, as predicted, things did not unfold as expected. Under his leadership, the title-holders finished third in the Iranian league and experienced an early exit in the Hazfi Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Potential candidates to replace Kartal include former China national team head coach Branko Ivankovic and Foolad\u2019s Yahya Golmohammadi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, \u0130smail Kartal, who served as Persepolis\u2019 third coach after Juan Carlos&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":53582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,186,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-leagues-clubs","category-persepolis"],"views":2552,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53581","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=53581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53583,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53581\/revisions\/53583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}