{"id":29196,"date":"2017-09-25T16:06:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T23:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29196"},"modified":"2017-09-25T16:06:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T23:06:39","slug":"al-hilal-are-the-best-asian-team-branko-ivankovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/09\/25\/al-hilal-are-the-best-asian-team-branko-ivankovic\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Al Hilal are the best Asian team&#8221;: Branko Ivankovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ABU DHABI,<strong> Persepolis football coach Branko Ivankovic says they will have a difficult task Tuesday night since Al Hilal are best Asian team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Saudi Arabian team will host Persepolis in a much-awaited clash in the first leg of their 2017 AFC Champions League semi-final in Abu Dhabi, the UAE.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know well Al Hilal are the best team in Asia but Persepolis are well improved this year and are in fine form. We showed our strength in two matches against Al Ahli,\u201d the Persepolis coach said in the pre-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are the only team among four Asian teams who have qualified for the semifinals, relying on domestic players. We will do our best to book a place in the final round, that\u2019s why we are here,\u201d the Croat added.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis have missed their best striker Mehdi Taremi after the player was banned by FIFA for four months for breaching his contract with Turkish club \u00c7aykur Rizespor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not have our best striker, who is one the best striker in Asia, but we have thought about his replacement. Taremi is as important for Persepolis as Carlos Eduardo is for Al Hilal,\u201d Ivankovic stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ABU DHABI, Persepolis football coach Branko Ivankovic says they will have a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":21074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":3517,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29196","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=29196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}