{"id":54588,"date":"2026-02-22T15:23:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=54588"},"modified":"2026-02-22T15:23:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T23:23:57","slug":"hossein-abdi-steps-down-as-irans-u17-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/02\/22\/hossein-abdi-steps-down-as-irans-u17-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Hossein Abdi steps down as Iran\u2019s U17 head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Hossein Abdi has stepped down as head coach of Iran\u2019s U17 national football team for undisclosed reasons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Abdi had been consistently active in Iran\u2019s age-group national teams, taking charge of various youth sides at different stages and working to strengthen the development pipeline for the country\u2019s senior national program.<\/p>\n<p>With his resignation, his tenure with Iran\u2019s U17 team appears to have come to an end. The Football Federation has not yet issued an official statement regarding his departure.<\/p>\n<p>Abdi has reportedly been linked with two Iranian football clubs as potential future destinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Hossein Abdi has stepped down as head coach of Iran\u2019s U17&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":54589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,170,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-u17","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":370,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54588","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=54588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54590,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54588\/revisions\/54590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}