{"id":29588,"date":"2017-10-25T15:51:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T22:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29588"},"modified":"2017-10-25T15:51:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T22:51:13","slug":"branko-ivankovic-cant-wait-for-derby-clash-with-esteghlal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/10\/25\/branko-ivankovic-cant-wait-for-derby-clash-with-esteghlal\/","title":{"rendered":"Branko Ivankovic can&#8217;t wait for derby clash with Esteghlal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic says that he is counting down the minutes until the Tehran derby and cannot wait for that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Persepolis football team is scheduled to face Esteghlal on Thursday at the 80,000-seat Azadi Stadium in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, I would like to extend my deepest sympathy to the family of Ebrahim Ashtiani. Ashtiani\u2019s death is a big blow to Persepolis club,\u201d Ivankovic said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will play in derby just for victory. We just think about winning and goal number is not important for us,\u201d the Croat said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTehran derby is a special game for both teams. And beating the arch-rival is much more important than winning the league title for the fans. I have to say I cannot wait for the match,\u201d Ivankovic stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic says that he is counting down the minutes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":2544,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29588","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=29588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29588\/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=29588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}