{"id":21414,"date":"2015-05-05T13:53:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=21414"},"modified":"2015-05-05T13:53:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:53:45","slug":"skocic-salutes-youngsters-as-future-stars-inspire-foolads-first-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/05\/05\/skocic-salutes-youngsters-as-future-stars-inspire-foolads-first-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Skocic Salutes Youngsters as Future Stars Inspire Foolad&#8217;s First Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; AHWAZ, <strong>Foolad signed off from their 2015 AFC Champions League campaign with a 1-0 win over Lokomotiv Tashkent that left coach Dragan Skocic praising his young players despite his side\u2019s early elimination from the competition. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bahman Jahantigh scored the only goal of the game a minute from time as the Iranians picked up their first win of the campaign to finish in third in Group C, two points ahead of the Uzbeks but four adrift of second-placed Al Sadd from Qatar.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI\u2019m happy we got the three points, but I\u2019m not satisfied with the first-half performance at all,\u201d said the Croatian (pictured). <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I decided to give time to my young players in the second half and you saw the result. I promise these young players will be Foolad\u2019s stars in a couple of years. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a coach I believe in the potential of young players and I\u2019ve never been afraid of using them. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe came here to get a win and fortunately we got it but for the next year I will prepare a better team to compete in the AFC Champions League.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The defeat ensured Lokomotiv finished bottom of the group having also only won once in the 2015 edition of the continental championship, and that secured against Al Sadd back on Matchday Three. <\/p>\n<p>Lokomotiv coach Vadim Abramov felt the conditions played a major role in his side\u2019s defeat, contributing to the mistakes made late in the game. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was a good game and you saw my players fought 80 minutes,\u201d said the former Uzbekistan national team head coach. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the final 10 minutes we had a couple of mistakes in defence while my players were exhausted playing in the very hot weather of Ahwaz. Foolad is a very good and professional team with young and talented players.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; AHWAZ, Foolad signed off from their 2015 AFC Champions League campaign with a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":21415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":1314,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21414","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}