{"id":27174,"date":"2017-02-11T14:43:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T22:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27174"},"modified":"2017-02-11T14:43:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T22:43:45","slug":"tehran-derby-is-the-biggest-game-in-iranian-football-branko-ivankovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/02\/11\/tehran-derby-is-the-biggest-game-in-iranian-football-branko-ivankovic\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tehran derby is the biggest game in Iranian football&#8221;: Branko Ivankovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis head coach Branko Ivankovic believes that his side\u2019s sole objective in the biggest game of Iran Professional League is to win it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the most important game of Iran Professional League with hundreds of millions of supporters so there is already a lot of motivation for the player to show their best on the pitch,\u201d Branko told reporters in the Tehran derby pre-match press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth teams have earned this match with a couple of successive wins in the previous games. Esteghlal have booked their place in the AFC Champions League Group stage after the win against Al-Sadd on penalties so they are quite motivated to continue their winning run,\u201d the Croatian coach added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEsteghlal are in a better situation compared to the first leg match. They have changed their starting line-up with young motivated players but we have only one goal and that is to win the match. We deserve to be at the top and I promise our fans to make every effort to win the derby on Sunday,\u201d Branko added.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis are top of the IPL table with 47 points, 13 points clear of Esteghlal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis head coach Branko Ivankovic believes that his side\u2019s sole objective&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":2971,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27174","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=27174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}