{"id":4480,"date":"2024-11-02T21:30:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/manolopoulos-optimistic-about-iran-basketball-future-2\/"},"modified":"2024-11-02T21:30:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T18:00:29","slug":"manolopoulos-optimistic-about-iran-basketball-future-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/manolopoulos-optimistic-about-iran-basketball-future-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Manolopoulos optimistic about Iran basketball future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.mehrnews.com\/d\/2024\/11\/02\/4\/5231878.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>The Greek coach, who replaced Turkish coach Hakan Demir in August, arrived in Tehran last week to take charge of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Manolopoulos talked about the situation of the team ahead of the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup qualification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Iranian players should stop losing ball because it\u2019s unacceptable in the modern basketball. The players must make the better decisions to stop mistakes. I am a defensive-minded coach and I am here to strengthen the team\u2019s defense,\u201d Manolopoulos said.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli are scheduled to host Kazakhstan on Nov. 22 in Tehran and will travel to Doha to play Qatar three days later. Manolopoulos has called up 19 players to the team for the matches. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApart from the good players Iran has in terms of physical strength, they are skillful technically and they can do important things, but for me as a coach, the team discipline is more important and the players must adapt to these conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe young generation are skilled and this is a strong point for the beginning. The team need time and I am here to help my team get better,\u201d the Greek coach concluded.<\/p>\n<p>MA\/TT<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/223911\/Manolopoulos-optimistic-about-Iran-basketball-future\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greek coach, who replaced Turkish coach Hakan Demir in August, arrived in Tehran last week to take charge of Iran. Manolopoulos talked about the situation of the team ahead of the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup qualification. \u201cThe Iranian players should stop losing ball because it\u2019s unacceptable in the modern basketball. The players must make &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480","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=4480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}