{"id":20159,"date":"2025-01-24T23:10:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T19:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/ismail-kartal-named-persepolis-coach\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T23:10:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T19:40:21","slug":"ismail-kartal-named-persepolis-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/ismail-kartal-named-persepolis-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Ismail Kartal named Persepolis coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5345989.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN \u2013 Turkish coach Ismail Kartal was appointed as new head coach of Persepolis football club.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The 63-year-old trained took charge of the Iranian giants on an 18-month deal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Kartal previously managed Fenerbahce in the 2014\/15 and 2021\/22 seasons, and was assistant manager from 2010 to 2014. He bagged two Turkish Super Lig titles, two Turkish Cup trophies, and a Turkish Super Cup with the Yellow Canaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">He replaces Spanish coach Juan Carlos Garrido, who left Persepolis in December following poor results.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Defending champions Persepolis sit fourth in the 2024\/25 Iran\u2019s Persian Gulf Professional League (PGPL), five points behind leaders Tractor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Persepolis are scheduled to face Tractor on Sunday in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/509021\/Ismail-Kartal-named-Persepolis-coach\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN \u2013 Turkish coach Ismail Kartal was appointed as new head coach of Persepolis football club. The 63-year-old trained took charge of the Iranian giants on an 18-month deal. Kartal previously managed Fenerbahce in the 2014\/15 and 2021\/22 seasons, and was assistant manager from 2010 to 2014. He bagged two Turkish Super Lig titles, two &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-20159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}