{"id":38657,"date":"2020-02-10T16:11:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T00:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=38657"},"modified":"2020-02-10T16:11:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T00:11:38","slug":"dragan-skocic-officially-pens-iran-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/02\/10\/dragan-skocic-officially-pens-iran-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragan Skocic officially pens Iran contract"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Dragan Skocic has officially penned his contract with the Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Skocic, 51, has replaced Marc Wilmots who left Team Melli in early December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Skocic&#8217;s first task is to book a place at \nthe 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification third round, where a total of 12 \nteams will be divided into two groups of six teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;The first two teams in each group will qualify for the World Cup. The two third-placed teams proceed to the fourth round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Skocic, who has already worked in Iranian clubs Malavana and Foolad, \nis Iran\u2019s fifth Croat coach after Stanko Poklepovic, Tomislav Ivic, \nMiroslav Blazevic and Branko Ivankovic. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Team Melli will have four must-win matches in late March and early June in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 and AFC Asian Cup China 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran will entertain Hong Kong on March 26 in Tehran and meet Cambodia five days later in an away match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Persians will face Bahrain and Iraq on June 4 and 9, respectively in Tehran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran, who are going to continue their \nquest for a sixth World Cup appearance, sit five points behind leaders \nIraq in Group C but having played one game fewer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Dragan Skocic has officially penned his contract with the Football Federation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1254,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38657","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=38657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38659,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38657\/revisions\/38659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}