{"id":31334,"date":"2018-04-08T09:44:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T16:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31334"},"modified":"2018-04-08T09:44:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T16:44:13","slug":"i-want-to-dedicate-the-title-to-persepolis-fans-branko-ivankovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/04\/08\/i-want-to-dedicate-the-title-to-persepolis-fans-branko-ivankovic\/","title":{"rendered":"I want to dedicate the title to Persepolis fans: Branko Ivankovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis football coach Branko Ivankovic says that he wants to dedicate title in Persian Gulf Professional League (PGPL) to the club\u2019s fans.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Persepolis claimed the PGPL title with three games to spare on Saturday after defeating Padideh in Mashhad\u2019s Samen Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Vahid Amiri scored the only goal of the match in the 77th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis claimed the title for the second successive year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew that we would win the title from two months ago. I would like to congratulate our players, staff and the fans. I want to dedicate the title to our fans,\u201d Ivankovic said in the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope we celebrate a splendid title ceremony in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium in front of our fans. I also want to thank my captain Jalal Hosseini since he has won six titles in Iran Professional League and is the most decorated player in Iran league,\u201d the Croat added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in our best form since we started the season with a trophy in Iran\u2019s Super Cup and also advanced to the AFC Champions League semis. Now we\u2019ve won the Iran Professional League title for the second successive year and have advanced to the AFC Champions League Round of 16 in the current season,\u201d Ivankovic explained.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very happy because we won a difficult match in Mashhad. I feel very proud because all of this is the result of hard work,\u201d Persepolis coach explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis football coach Branko Ivankovic says that he wants to dedicate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31334","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":1456,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31334","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=31334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31336,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31334\/revisions\/31336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}