{"id":25042,"date":"2016-04-29T10:27:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T17:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=25042"},"modified":"2016-04-29T10:30:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T17:30:23","slug":"persepolis-coach-branko-ivankovic-apologizes-to-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/04\/29\/persepolis-coach-branko-ivankovic-apologizes-to-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic apologizes to fans [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic apologized to the team\u2019s fans for their loss to Naft Tehran in Iran Professional League (IPL) on Thursday.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nWith three weeks to go, IPL leader Persepolis was defeated against Naft 2-0 in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium in front of about 90,000 spectators and moved down to third place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst, I congratulate Naft Tehran due to victory. They took advantage of our mistakes. We have to be ready for Gostaresh Foolad match which has been scheduled for the next 10 days,\u201d Branko said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am really sad because of the defeat. It\u2019s not right time to lose. I am ashamed of our fans that we could not make them happy,\u201d the Croat said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom now, title destiny is not &#8216;in our hands&#8217; but we will never give up. We will do our best in the two remaining matches,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Esteghlal defeated Saipa 2-1 and returned to top of table on goal difference, followed by Esteghlal Khuzestan who beat struggling Rah Ahan 3-1 and Persepolis.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hP3097m2Wx8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hP3097m2Wx8<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic apologized to the team\u2019s fans for their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":25043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":2162,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25042","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=25042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}