{"id":29868,"date":"2017-11-28T14:29:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T22:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29868"},"modified":"2017-11-28T14:29:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T22:29:29","slug":"zlatko-dalic-lauds-quality-of-team-melli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/11\/28\/zlatko-dalic-lauds-quality-of-team-melli\/","title":{"rendered":"Zlatko Dalic lauds quality of Team Melli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZAGREB, <strong>Croatian national team manager, Zlatko Dalic, talked about his friendship with Branko Ivankovic, coach of Persepolis, and praised the Iran national team quality.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBranko Ivankovic is my big friend, he helped me a lot when I started my career,\u201d Dalic said in an interview with GOL BEZAN.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cHe was my coach for five years and I learned a lot from Branko, he is a very professional coach, also a very good man. I\u2019m always in touch with him and we talk two or three times every week about football, about Persepolis, Iranian club and he asks me about my situation. I can just say nice things about Branko because he helped me a lot. I know he has done a great job with Persepolis and has won the premier league of Iran,\u201d Dalic said.<\/p>\n<p>The head coach of Croatian national team, who replaced Ante Cacic and led the team to the FIFA World Cup 2018, also commented on Team Melli.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cIran played very well in World Cup qualifiers and advanced to the competition sooner than the Asian teams. We hope we will not be in the same group with Iran,\u201d the former Al Ain coach concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZAGREB, Croatian national team manager, Zlatko Dalic, talked about his friendship with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,91,165,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-c20-other-news","category-persian-gulf-pro-league","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1359,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29868","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=29868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}