{"id":23036,"date":"2015-10-29T16:49:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T23:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=23036"},"modified":"2015-10-29T16:49:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T23:49:19","slug":"persepolis-coach-calls-tehran-derby-asias-biggest-footballing-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/10\/29\/persepolis-coach-calls-tehran-derby-asias-biggest-footballing-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis coach calls Tehran derby Asia\u2019s biggest footballing event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic described the Tehran derby as the biggest football event in Asia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Persepolis will play Iran Professional League leader Esteghlal on Friday in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTehran derby is the biggest football event in Iran as well as Asia. I am happy to be part of the beautiful exhibition. I\u2019ve seen Esteghlal&#8217;s last 10 matches in the league and I think we know what makes a team perform well,\u201d Branko said in the pre-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that Esteghlal cannot surprise us in this match. In my opinion, the players will make the final decision and they will play the key roles in this match,\u201d the Croat added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve experienced so many derbies in countries like Croatia, the UAE and China but I have to say it remains a derby like no other,\u201d Branko concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic described the Tehran derby as the biggest football&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":23037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":4512,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23036","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=23036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}