{"id":38634,"date":"2020-02-08T19:47:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T03:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=38634"},"modified":"2020-02-08T19:47:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T03:47:14","slug":"blazevic-confident-skocic-will-bring-success-to-team-melli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/02\/08\/blazevic-confident-skocic-will-bring-success-to-team-melli\/","title":{"rendered":"Blazevic confident Skocic will bring success to Team Melli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mehr News &#8211; ZAGREB, <strong>Former coach of Iran and Croatia national football teams Miroslav Bla\u017eevi\u0107 said that Dragan Skocic will achieve success in his career in Team Melli.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking to Dnevnik on Friday, the 84-year-old Blazevic said he is sure Skocic will achieve good results in Team Melli. Skocic has had a hard path to reach here, he said. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He went on to talk about his \u2018wonderful\u2019 memories in Iran, noting &#8220;The first match on the Iranian bench was attended by 110,000 people in the stadium and another 30,000 outside.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He parted ways with Team Melli after the team failed to book a place in the 2002 World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran football federation named on Thursday Croatian Dragan Skocic as the new manager national football team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team lacked a coach for more than two months after Marc Wilmots terminated the contract with the federation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran has four must-win games ahead in the 2022 World qualifiers against Hong Kong, Cambodia, Bahrain, and Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dragan Skocic is the fifth Croat in the role of Iran&#8217;s leader, after Stanko Poklepovic, Tomislav Ivic, Miroslav Blazevic, and Branko Ivankovic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mehr News &#8211; ZAGREB, Former coach of Iran and Croatia national football teams Miroslav Bla\u017eevi\u0107&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":38635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,142,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38634","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-memory-lane","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1624,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38634","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=38634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38636,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38634\/revisions\/38636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}