{"id":34637,"date":"2018-12-24T20:17:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T04:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34637"},"modified":"2018-12-24T20:17:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T04:17:52","slug":"former-iran-and-persepolis-coach-stanko-poklepovic-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/12\/24\/former-iran-and-persepolis-coach-stanko-poklepovic-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Iran and Persepolis coach Stanko Poklepovic dies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; SPLIT,\u00a0<strong>Former Iran national football team <\/strong><g class=\"gr_ gr_3 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"3\" data-gr-id=\"3\"><strong>and<\/strong><\/g><strong> Persepolis club coach Stanko Poklepovic passed away at the age of 81.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poklepovic died after a long illness at the Split Hospital in the early hours of December 24th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Croatian made his impact in the 1984\u201385 Yugoslav First League as the manager of Hajduk Split when he took over the Yugoslav powerhouse at the time when a lot of important players left the club and a lot of young players like Asanovic, Andrijasevic and Spanjic joined the club with no experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1994, he was named as the head coach of the Iranian national football team and Persepolis. He won back-to-back Azadegan League titles with Persepolis in 1996 and 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poklepovic replaced Ali Parvin as Team Melli coach in 1994 after the Iranian legendary coach failed to qualify for World Cup 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poklepovic also coached Iranian football clubs Sepahan and Damash Gilan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tehran Times staff offer heartfelt condolences to his bereaved family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; SPLIT,\u00a0Former Iran national football team and Persepolis club coach Stanko Poklepovic passed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,164,136,91,172,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-c20-other-news","category-persepolis","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":830,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34637","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=34637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34639,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34637\/revisions\/34639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}