{"id":35357,"date":"2019-02-01T08:08:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T16:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35357"},"modified":"2019-02-01T08:08:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T16:08:32","slug":"branko-ivankovic-speaks-out-over-iran-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/02\/01\/branko-ivankovic-speaks-out-over-iran-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Branko Ivankovic speaks out over Iran link"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic has given his first interview about Iran national football team since Team Melli failed to reach the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is being considered as potential candidate to take charge of Iran national football team, however the Croat says he is under contract with Persepolis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli are without coach after parting company with Carlos Queiroz. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if they are looking to hire a new coach or not. It depends to the federation and it will make the best decision after analyzing the best choices. But, I am Persepolis coach at the moment and I have extended my deal for two more years at the beginning of the season,\u201d Ivankovic said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ivankovic led Team Melli to the third place in the 2004 AFC Asian Cup in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also steered Iran national football team to the 2006 World Cup in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis fans, as the most popular football team in Iran, adore Ivankovic after he led them to the AFC Champions League final for the first time in their history. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ivankovic and Queiroz engaged in verbal warfare from the last year following mismanagement of Team Melli\u2019s preparation programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their feud became so heated ahead of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup when the Portuguese informed Ivankovic had been talking up Iraq&#8217;s coach Srecko Katanec while goading Queiroz to beat their bitter rivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rumors had been circulating around the local media that the Iranian federation is going to sign a big name as a replacement for Queiroz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis coach Branko Ivankovic has given his first interview about Iran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,172,165,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persepolis","category-persian-gulf-pro-league","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1599,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35357","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=35357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35359,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35357\/revisions\/35359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}