{"id":35899,"date":"2019-03-29T19:14:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T02:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35899"},"modified":"2019-03-29T19:14:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T02:14:34","slug":"persepolis-always-plays-to-win-branko-ivankovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/03\/29\/persepolis-always-plays-to-win-branko-ivankovic\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis always plays to win: Branko Ivankovic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis football team coach Branko Ivankovic says they always play to beat their rivals.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis will meet Esteghlal on Saturday in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium in Iran Professional League (IPL).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFirst, I would like to express my sympathies for victims of flood in Iran. Our thoughts and prayers go out to their family in this sad time,\u201d Ivankovic said in the pre-match news conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think the match against Esteghlal will be the best start for us in the New Iranian Year. You know where Persepolis and Esteghlal are in the table and it will make the derby more important. We finished the last year as the leader and want to keep it going in the New Year,\u201d the Croat added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are challenging in three tournaments in this season. Persepolis has qualified for Hazfi Cup semis and will try to advance to the AFC Champions League knockout stage. We also want to win Iran Professional League for the third year in a row,\u201d Ivankovic said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will always play to win, however we will have a difficult task in this season since Sepahan, Tractor Sazi and Padideh are also favorites to win the title as well as Esteghlal,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis football team coach Branko Ivankovic says they always play to beat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,164,136,172,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persepolis","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":527,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35899","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=35899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35901,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35899\/revisions\/35901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}