{"id":31094,"date":"2018-03-12T15:39:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T22:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31094"},"modified":"2018-03-12T15:39:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T22:39:42","slug":"persepolis-aim-to-reach-acl-final-branko-ivankovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/03\/12\/persepolis-aim-to-reach-acl-final-branko-ivankovic\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis aim to reach ACL final: Branko Ivankovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic says they are aiming to reach the AFC Champions League final match for the first time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian giants qualified for the ACL semi-final last year but failed to book a place in the final match after being defeated by Saudi Arabia\u2019s Al Hilal.<\/p>\n<p>The Croat says Persepolis want to go one step forward to reach the competition\u2019s final this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian giants, who sit top of the Group C with six points, defeated Al Wasl of the UAE 2-0 last week and will meet the team at the Zabeel Stadium in Dubai on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAl Wasl is a strong team and we know it will be a difficult match. In my opinion, all participating teams in ACL are strong teams. However, we are determined to defeat our opponents,\u201d Ivankovic said in the pre-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve played so many matches in the past days but it could not prevent us from reaching our goal. Persepolis is a well-prepared team than we were last year,\u201d former Iran national team coach stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re proud of us for advancing to the semi-final last year but Persepolis are going to book a place in the final match this time,\u201d Ivankovic concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic says they are aiming to reach the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31094","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":1276,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31094","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=31094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31096,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31094\/revisions\/31096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}