{"id":26556,"date":"2016-11-23T16:21:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T00:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26556"},"modified":"2016-11-23T16:21:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T00:21:56","slug":"persepolis-favorite-to-win-ipl-branko-ivankovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/11\/23\/persepolis-favorite-to-win-ipl-branko-ivankovic\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Persepolis favorite to win IPL&#8221;: Branko Ivankovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN,  <strong>Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic says they are favorite to win the title in the Iran Professional League (IPL) current season.<\/strong><br \/>\nIPL pacesetter Persepolis will face Paykan on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian popular football team held a one-week training camp in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am satisfied with our training camp in Dubai and we are well prepared for the match against Paykan. We cannot wait for the start of the competition,\u201d Branko said in the pre-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersepolis goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand and midfielder Omid Alishah will miss the match because they are suffering hand injuries but the other players are ready for the match against Paykan,\u201d the Croat coach added.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis stays top of the IPL table with 22 points, two points ahead of Tractor Sazi.<\/p>\n<p>Naft Tehran is third with 16 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic says they are favorite to win the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":1745,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26556","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=26556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}