{"id":19832,"date":"2014-12-20T09:30:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T17:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19832"},"modified":"2014-12-20T09:30:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T17:30:54","slug":"branko-ivankovic-close-to-persepolis-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/12\/20\/branko-ivankovic-close-to-persepolis-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Branko Ivankovic close to Persepolis move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Iran&#8217;s national football coach Branko Ivankovic has been linked with a move to Persepolis football team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 60-year-old Croat has confirmed the Iranian giant is interested in hiring him.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Tasnim on Saturday, Branko said he is now studying an offer from a Chinese team.<\/p>\n<p>He, howere, said he is ready to study possible offer by the Iranian teams, if any.<\/p>\n<p>Ivankovic was appointed to the head of the Iranian team in 2002. Iran U-23 football team won the 2002 Asian Games in Pusan.<\/p>\n<p>Ivankovic led Iran to 2004 AFC Asian Cup third place.<\/p>\n<p>He also led Iran to qualify for the 2006 World Cup, where Team Melli failed to advance to knockout stage after being defeated by Mexico and Portugal and held by Angola.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Iran&#8217;s national football coach Branko Ivankovic has been linked with a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":14567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3724,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19832","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=19832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}