{"id":11308,"date":"2010-07-04T09:53:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T16:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/07\/04\/serbian-tumbakovic-moves-closer-to-steel-azin\/"},"modified":"2010-07-04T09:53:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T16:53:13","slug":"serbian-tumbakovic-moves-closer-to-steel-azin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/07\/04\/serbian-tumbakovic-moves-closer-to-steel-azin\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbian Tumbakovic moves closer to Steel Azin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"steelazin-saba-karimi-b\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/steelazin-saba-karimi-b.jpg\" height=\"257\" width=\"386\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Partizan Belgrade coach Ljubisa Tumbakovic is likely to be named as Steel Azin football coach.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 58-year-old is in Iran to negotiate with the Tehran-based team\u2019s officials. \u201cThis is my first visit to Iran and I am optimistic about your football\u2019s potential for progress,\u201d Tumbakovic said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember your team in the two 1998 and 2006 World Cups. Iran had a good performance against Yugoslavia which was one of Europe\u2019s strong teams at that time,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have studied your football and found out that I can work in Steel Azin,\u201d Tumbakovic concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Tumbakovic is the most successful coach in the history of Partizan Belgrade where he won six national championships and three national cups.<\/p>\n<p>From January 2004 to December 2009, he was the manager of Shandong Luneng in the Chinese Super League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Partizan Belgrade coach Ljubisa Tumbakovic is likely to be named as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":4112,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}