{"id":30205,"date":"2025-03-05T16:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T12:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/abdi-a-leading-candidate-for-iran-u23-coaching-role\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T16:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T12:53:06","slug":"abdi-a-leading-candidate-for-iran-u23-coaching-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/abdi-a-leading-candidate-for-iran-u23-coaching-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdi a leading candidate for Iran U23 coaching role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5385194.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN \u2013 Hossein Abdi is a leading candidate to become the head coach of Iran&#8217;s U23 football team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:white\">Abdi has a strong track record with Iran&#8217;s youth teams, having previously coached both the U17 and U20 squads. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:white\">The U23 team are currently without a coach following the departure of Reza Enayati.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:white\">Most recently, Abdi led Iran in the 2025 AFC U20 Asian Cup, where they were eliminated by Japan on penalties in the quarter-finals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"background-color:white\">Abdi, a former captain of Persepolis football club, has not commented on the speculation.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/510566\/Abdi-a-leading-candidate-for-Iran-U23-coaching-role\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN \u2013 Hossein Abdi is a leading candidate to become the head coach of Iran&#8217;s U23 football team. Abdi has a strong track record with Iran&#8217;s youth teams, having previously coached both the U17 and U20 squads. The U23 team are currently without a coach following the departure of Reza Enayati. Most recently, Abdi led &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-30205","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\/30205","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=30205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}