{"id":37876,"date":"2021-11-24T11:18:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T07:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=37876"},"modified":"2021-11-24T11:18:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T07:48:23","slug":"iran%e2%80%99s-poya-asbaghi-named-head-coach-of-championship-side-barnsley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/37876\/iran%e2%80%99s-poya-asbaghi-named-head-coach-of-championship-side-barnsley\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Poya Asbaghi named head coach of Championship side Barnsley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN &#8211; Iranian-born coach Poya Asbaghi was appointed as new head coach of English Championship side Barnsley.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old began his coaching career as an assistant at Swedish third tier outfit Dalkurd FF, before taking over the helm two years later.<\/p>\n<p>After a successful spell with the Uppsala-based club, he was appointed by Gefle IF in 2017 before a two-year stint with Swedish giants IFK G\u00f6teborg between 2018 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p>He led G\u00f6teborg to Svenska Cupen glory in 2020 with a 2-1 victory over fierce rivals Malm\u00f6 FF before leaving his position at IFK in September that year.<\/p>\n<p>Asbaghi won six of his 10 games in charge of Sweden U21s and arrives in South Yorkshire having left the young Swedes top of UEFA U21 European Championship Qualifying Group F after seven fixtures, barnsleyfc.co.uk wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He will be accompanied by Ferran Sibila, who was his assistant at G\u00f6teborg. The 33-year-old Spaniard has previously coached at Swedish outfit GIF Sundsvall.<\/p>\n<p>Barnsley are currently second from bottom in the Championship with only 11 points so far from 18 matches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN &#8211; Iranian-born coach Poya Asbaghi was appointed as new head coach of English Championship side Barnsley. The 36-year-old began his coaching career as an assistant at Swedish third tier outfit Dalkurd FF, before taking over the helm two years later. After a successful spell with the Uppsala-based club, he was appointed by Gefle IF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}