{"id":23696,"date":"2015-12-26T22:52:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T06:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=23696"},"modified":"2015-12-26T22:52:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T06:52:45","slug":"persepolis-coach-branko-defends-goalie-makani-after-red-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/12\/26\/persepolis-coach-branko-defends-goalie-makani-after-red-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis coach Branko defends goalie Makani after red card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic defended the Reds\u2019 goalkeeper Sosha Makani, who was sent off following a collision with Padideh striker outside the area in the Iran Professional League (IPL) on Saturday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Persepolis had to play the last five minutes of the match against Padideh with 10 players after Makani picked up a straight red card. <\/p>\n<p>10-man Persepolis drew 2-2 with Padideh in the IPL Week 16. Persepolis continued its 10-match unbeaten run in IPL. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an exciting match. We are satisfied with the result since we were reduced to 10 man in the last minutes of the match. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI apologize to Persepolis fans since we failed to meet expectations,\u201d Ivankovic said in the post-match news conference. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPadideh and Persepolis played a lackluster first half but in the second half both teams scored twice and the fans enjoyed the match,\u201d the Croat added. <\/p>\n<p>Praising Persepolis goalkeeper Sosha Makani, Branko said, \u201cHe did his best to prevent their third goal. He was sent off but helped us earn an away draw.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic defended the Reds\u2019 goalkeeper Sosha Makani, who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23098,"featured_media":23697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":1634,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23696","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\/23098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}