{"id":33561,"date":"2018-09-29T09:14:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T16:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33561"},"modified":"2018-09-29T09:14:58","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T16:14:58","slug":"i-wont-change-my-philosophy-at-persepolis-insists-branko-ivankovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/09\/29\/i-wont-change-my-philosophy-at-persepolis-insists-branko-ivankovic\/","title":{"rendered":"I won&#8217;t change my philosophy at Persepolis, insists Branko Ivankovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis head coach Branko Ivankovic said he will not change his philosophy despite \u2018shortage of players\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Persepolis will play Qatari giants Al Sadd in the first leg of the AFC Champions League semifinals on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited for the match against Al Sadd in the semifinals. Persepolis are the only team to reach semis for the second successive year. It shows we are progressing well,\u201d Ivankovic told reporters on the margins of the training.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersepolis face so many problems for the match against Al Sadd. Kamal Kamyabinia and Mohammad Ansari are suspended for this match and Hossein Mahini has sustained a knee injury in the match against Esteghlal. Despite all that, we are very happy to be in this stage and I hope to book a place in the final match,\u201d the Croat added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegarding shortage of players we face, a young player will certainly be in starting XI in the first leg and I completely trust him,\u201d Ivankovic went on to say.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis defeated Qatar\u2019s Al Duhail 3-2 on aggregate thanks to a 3-1 win in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium. Al Sadd coach Jesualdo Ferreira has said they want to beat Persepolis in Doha with more than one goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not change our philosophy in the match against Al Sadd. We will play attacking football and I have trust in my players. We are optimistic about this match,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersepolis fans like to win the AFC Champions League and we will do our best to do that,\u201d Ivankovic concluded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis head coach Branko Ivankovic said he will not change his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c31-pfdc-interviews"],"views":621,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33561","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=33561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33563,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33561\/revisions\/33563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}