{"id":19287,"date":"2014-09-20T03:58:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T10:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19287"},"modified":"2014-09-20T03:58:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T10:58:30","slug":"foolad-defeats-esteghlal-at-azadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/09\/20\/foolad-defeats-esteghlal-at-azadi\/","title":{"rendered":"Foolad defeats Esteghlal at Azadi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Foolad football team defeated Esteghlal in the Iranian Professional League (IPL) thanks to a late goal from Soroush Rafiei.<\/p>\n<p>In the match held at the Azadi Stadium in Tehran, Rafiei scored the only goal of the match in the 84th minute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst, I congratulate my players due to this victory. I am satisfied with the way my players played,\u201d Dragan Skocic said in the post match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were not good enough in the first half and I made several changes in the second half in order to create more movement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFoolad could not win its two previous matches and we needed the victory against Esteghlal,\u201d the Croat added.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Gostaresh Foold beat Zob Ahan 3-2, Saipa demolished newly-promoted Padideh 4-0, Naft Masjed Soleyman suffered a 2-0 home defeat against Naft and Paykan edged Malavan 1-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Foolad football team defeated Esteghlal in the Iranian Professional League (IPL) thanks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":15602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":4947,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19287","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=19287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}