{"id":55113,"date":"2026-07-09T19:14:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=55113"},"modified":"2026-07-09T19:14:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:14:22","slug":"mehdi-tartar-takes-charge-of-persepolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2026\/07\/09\/mehdi-tartar-takes-charge-of-persepolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehdi Tartar takes charge of Persepolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Mehdi Tartar has been named as new head coach of Persepolis football club.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Tehran-based club had been expected to appoint Dragan Skocic, but the two parties failed to reach a final agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Tartar joins Persepolis after a successful spell in charge of Gol Gohar. He replaces Brazilian coach Osmar Vieira at the helm of the Iranian giants.<\/p>\n<p>A former Persepolis player, Tartar returns to the club as head coach for the first time in his managerial career.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mehdi Rahmati has been named as Tartar&#8217;s successor at Gol Gohar. Rahmati most recently managed Kheybar Khorramabad during the 2025\u201326 season in the Iran Persian Gulf Professional League (PGPL).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Mehdi Tartar has been named as new head coach of Persepolis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":55114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,172,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-persepolis","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":65,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55113","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=55113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55115,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55113\/revisions\/55115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}