{"id":33543,"date":"2018-09-26T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33543"},"modified":"2018-09-26T11:37:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T18:37:00","slug":"esteghlal-players-are-highly-motivated-for-derby-winfried-schaefer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/09\/26\/esteghlal-players-are-highly-motivated-for-derby-winfried-schaefer\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal players are highly motivated for derby: Winfried Schaefer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal German coach Winfried Schaefer says his players are highly motivated for match against Persepolis in Tehran derby.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal, who sit 11th in the 16-team Iran Professional League, will host their arch rivals Persepolis at the 80,000-capacity Azadi Stadium on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDerby always bring a big excitement. I hope the match will be held in calmness as it was held in the last year. I ask the fans to respect the referee,\u201d Schaefer said in the pre-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>International referee Alireza Faghani will officiate the 88th derby at the Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe watched Persepolis match against Qatar\u2019s Al Duhail and we know how strong they are.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have signed several new players for the new season and need time. Pep Guardiola also needed time to build a strong team,\u201d the German added.<\/p>\n<p>Their last match was watched by FIFA president Gianni Infantino and former Dutch international Marco Van Basten at the Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis are second in Iran Professional League (IPL) table while Esteghlal sit 11th.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal German coach Winfried Schaefer says his players are highly motivated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,87,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":405,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33543","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33545,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33543\/revisions\/33545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}