{"id":29837,"date":"2017-11-22T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29837"},"modified":"2017-11-22T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T20:45:00","slug":"branko-ivankovic-wants-to-evolve-irans-style-of-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/11\/22\/branko-ivankovic-wants-to-evolve-irans-style-of-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Branko Ivankovic wants to evolve Iran\u2019s style of football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis football coach Brank Ivankovic says he is going to transfer his knowledge to Iran football.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came to Iran to change your style of play and improve your game. Iranian teams were playing English style of football and it&#8217;s normal because the sport had been brought to the country by Englishmen. I want to change your traditional game into the modern football, that&#8217;s why I am here,\u201d Ivankovic said in an interview with Mehr news agency.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the moment, I am Persepolis coach and I am very satisfied with the results we&#8217;ve achieved during the previous years. I am happy to be at the Iran\u2019s most popular team. In 2006, I led Team Melli at the World Cup but I was under pressure at that moment, however, I do not want to go back to the past,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis has been banned from signing players for the next two transfer windows after their striker Mehdi Taremi breached his contract with Turkey\u2019s football club Caykur Rizespor.<\/p>\n<p>Taremi is also staying out of fields for four-month after FIFA found him guilty.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian giants also have so many financial problems but Branko believes there is no excuse not to challenge for Iran Professional League title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of the football clubs are suffering from financial difficulties and I believe that it\u2019s normal. For example, AC Milan faces financial issues but they play in the Italian league. Iranian clubs Sepahan and Foolad have no financial problems but they face some other big challenges,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ivankovic was a nominee to take charge of Croatia football team but Zlatko Dalic replaced Ante Cacic in the European team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was a candidate for the post but it\u2019s not a new story. I wish all the best for Croatia in the World Cup. Iran has also a great future in the World Cup because Team Melli have been prepared very well,\u201d the 63-year-old coach concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis football coach Brank Ivankovic says he is going to transfer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29837","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":1922,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29837","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=29837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}