{"id":153514,"date":"2026-01-01T17:53:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T17:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=153514"},"modified":"2026-01-01T17:53:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T17:53:28","slug":"former-vancouver-fc-coach-sues-soccer-club-over-alleged-716k-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=153514","title":{"rendered":"Former Vancouver FC coach sues soccer club over alleged $716K loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sO4ky4pEC78?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The former head coach of Vancouver FC is suing team ownership, alleging he is owed over $700,000 in principal and interest on a half-million-dollar loan he extended to the club more than two years ago. The CBC&#8217;s Karin Larsen reports on Afshin Ghotbi&#8217;s loan to the team.<\/p>\n<p>Connect with CBC Vancouver online:<br \/>\nWebsite: https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/bc<br \/>\nTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@cbcvancouver<\/p>\n<p>#CBCVancouver #CBCNews #BritishColumbia<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sO4ky4pEC78\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former head coach of Vancouver FC is suing team ownership, alleging he is owed over $700,000 in principal and interest on a half-million-dollar loan he extended to the club&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10236,"featured_media":153515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-how-to-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}