{"id":12713,"date":"2012-02-01T18:38:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T02:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/02\/01\/denizli-calls-on-fans-to-back-persepolis\/"},"modified":"2012-02-01T18:38:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T02:38:54","slug":"denizli-calls-on-fans-to-back-persepolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/02\/01\/denizli-calls-on-fans-to-back-persepolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Denizli calls on fans to back Persepolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"DenizliAnsari\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/DenizliAnsari.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"300\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis football coach Mustafa Denizli has asked for the club\u2019s fans to support their team in the match against Esteghlal in the Tehran derby on Thursday.<\/strong> <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Speaking at a news conference held at the Iran\u2019s League Organization, Denizli said: \u201cEsteghlal is a well-prepared team at the moment, however, we are also strong and I hope that we are the happy team after the final whistle,\u201d Denizli said.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cIn my opinion, the match against Esteghlal could be a turning point for Persepolis,\u201d he added. \u201cPersepolis has lost its past four successive matches and we want to bring to an end to our defeats.\u201d<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\u201cAs a coach, I never think about a draw and I want to win the match. We are going to defeat Esteghlal to make our fans happy,\u201d the 63-year-old said. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Alireza Faghani has been appointed the referee for Thursday\u2019s derby meeting between Persepolis and Esteghlal.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Esteghlal and Persepolis have played against each other 73 times, with Esteghlal winning 25 games, Persepolis taking 17 victories, and 31 matches ending in a draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis football coach Mustafa Denizli has asked for the club\u2019s fans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":2768,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}