Former Iran national team midfielder Hamid Estilli has been appointed as the country under-23 manager, replacing Esteghlal legend Farhad Madjidi.<\/p>\n
Estilli has been the team\u2019s technical director but his disagreement with Madjidi led to former striker\u2019s resignation.
\nEstilli who had been a combative midfielder, scored Iran first goal in memorable match against USA at 1998 World Cup but his managerial career has been far from fruitful. His last stint as manager was a short term with Malavan Bandar-e-Anzali four years ago.<\/p>\n
Iran will face Uzbekistan, China and South Korea in next year’s Olympic men’s football qualifying tournament in Thailand.<\/p>\n
The U-23 tournament, scheduled to run from Jan. 8-26 across Thailand, will double as the Asian qualifying tournament for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Iran national team midfielder Hamid Estilli has been appointed as the country under-23 manager, replacing Esteghlal legend Farhad Madjidi. Estilli has been the team\u2019s technical director but his disagreement with Madjidi led to former striker\u2019s resignation. Estilli who had been a combative midfielder, scored Iran first goal in memorable match against USA at 1998 World Cup but his managerial career has been far from fruitful. His last stint as manager was a short term with Malavan Bandar-e-Anzali four years ago. Iran will face Uzbekistan, China and South Korea in next year’s Olympic men’s football qualifying tournament in Thailand. The U-23 tournament, scheduled to run from Jan. 8-26 across Thailand, … Continue reading “Hamid Estilli has been appointed as Iran under-23 manager”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":20451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,27],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-20450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran","category-west-asia","tag-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20453,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20450\/revisions\/20453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}