{"id":54838,"date":"2026-05-11T19:44:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=54838"},"modified":"2026-05-11T19:44:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:44:46","slug":"hossein-abdi-named-as-head-coach-of-iran-u23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/05\/11\/hossein-abdi-named-as-head-coach-of-iran-u23\/","title":{"rendered":"Hossein Abdi named as head coach of Iran U23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Hossein Abdi has been named head coach of the Iran U23 national team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iran U23 football team put on a poor performance in the 2026 AFC U23 Asian Cup, and the officials of the Football Federation have ended their cooperation with Omid Ravankhah, shortly after the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The Football Federation held negotiations with Abdi, a former Persepolis player and youth-level coach, and reached a final agreement with him.<\/p>\n<p>Abdi will hold a final meeting in the coming days to sign a contract with the Football Federation.<\/p>\n<p>The Iran U-23 national team will compete in the Asian Games to be held in Nagoya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Hossein Abdi has been named head coach of the Iran U23&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":54839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,139,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-irans-u23","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":85,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54838","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=54838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54840,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54838\/revisions\/54840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}