{"id":24341,"date":"2016-02-14T12:59:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T20:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24341"},"modified":"2016-02-14T12:59:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T20:59:53","slug":"branko-ivankovic-hits-out-at-resignation-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/02\/14\/branko-ivankovic-hits-out-at-resignation-rumors\/","title":{"rendered":"Branko Ivankovic hits out at resignation rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis head coach Branko Ivankovic believes that the recent speculation about his resignation is just a story to stop his team\u2019s progress.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy resignation is just a rumor. My full concentration is on Persepolis and I think this is a similar story to my players doping tests. People who don\u2019t want success for Persepolis create these rumors to hit the team,\u201d Persepolis head coach Branko Ivankovic told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Branko also talked about his contract extension and Mehdi Taremi\u2019s future at Persepolis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve not had any meeting about my contract extension with the club officials. I also think for Mehdi Taremi is better to stay with Persepolis one more year and then move to another club. He could be a very good player if he works hard,\u201d Branko added.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds giant, who edged past Foolad on Friday, is currently in the 3rd place with 34 points behind Esteghlal and Esteghlal Khouzestan.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis will take on Saipa on Thursday in the 21st week of Iran Professional League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis head coach Branko Ivankovic believes that the recent speculation about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":23715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":1709,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24341","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=24341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}