{"id":24478,"date":"2016-02-24T14:33:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T22:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24478"},"modified":"2016-02-24T14:43:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T22:43:45","slug":"sepahan-coach-stimac-lauds-brazilian-striker-pereira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/02\/24\/sepahan-coach-stimac-lauds-brazilian-striker-pereira\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepahan Coach Stimac lauds Brazilian striker Pereira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; ISFAHAN, <strong>Sepahan football coach Igor Stimac praised his Brazilian striker Luciano Pereira after they defeated Al Nasr of the United Arab Emirates 2-0 in the 2016 AFC Champions League on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pereira scored both goals for the Iranian football team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a player misses a chance in a game the pressure on him will mount in the next games. Pereira missed a couple of chances in a number of <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/thepeninsulaqatar.com\/images\/stories\/2014\/April17\/foolad.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/thepeninsulaqatar.com\/images\/stories\/2014\/April17\/foolad.jpg\" \/>matches but he\u2019s our most valuable player. He draws four opposition players to himself and I would have never sidelined him for his performance in those matches,\u201d the Croat said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou all know what difficult days we have gone through,\u201d added Stimac.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut if we believe in ourselves we can obtain good results. We prefer to respond to our critics on the pitch. I have no problems with them and try to learn from them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn football, it\u2019s the teams who play matches, not individual players. I said earlier that our opponents have world class players but as we witnessed in the match that big names didn\u2019t make a difference,\u201d Stimac stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; ISFAHAN, Sepahan football coach Igor Stimac praised his Brazilian striker Luciano Pereira after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":24479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":1710,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24478","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=24478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}