{"id":21851,"date":"2015-06-19T12:45:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T19:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=21851"},"modified":"2015-06-19T12:45:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T19:45:39","slug":"irans-esteghlal-reaches-initial-agreement-with-igor-stimac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/06\/19\/irans-esteghlal-reaches-initial-agreement-with-igor-stimac\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Esteghlal reaches initial agreement with Igor Stimac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian giant Esteghlal football team has reached an initial agreement with Croatian coach Igor Stimac on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 47-year-old, who was a member of Croatia football team won the bronze medal in the 1998 FIFA World Cup, negotiated with the officials of the Iranian football club in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve heard Esteghlal has 20 million fans and it deserves to win the title.\u00a0 We\u2019ve talked about so many things but not about financial issue so far,\u201d Stimac said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have good knowledge of Iran\u2019s football since my assistants have worked here for years,\u201d former Croatia coach added.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal finished in sixth place in the Iran Professional League (IPL) last season under Amir Ghalenoei&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian giant Esteghlal football team has reached an initial agreement with Croatian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":21853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":1364,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21851","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=21851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}