{"id":38738,"date":"2020-02-25T20:11:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T04:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=38738"},"modified":"2020-02-25T20:11:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T04:11:02","slug":"iranians-the-worlds-most-hospitable-people-dragan-skocic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/02\/25\/iranians-the-worlds-most-hospitable-people-dragan-skocic\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranians the world\u2019s most hospitable people: Dragan Skocic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>National football team head coach Dragan Skocic says that the Iranian people are the most hospitable people in the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview with vecernji.hr, the Team Melli coach lauded the Iranian nation and said that the country is very safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve coached in Iran for five years and have a good knowledge of the country\u2019s football. I\u2019ve already worked in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and played in the UAE and know the Middle East and I have to say there is unfair judgment against the Iranians,\u201d Skocic said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Iranian people are wonderful. They are interested in going restaurants and music can be heard everywhere. You don\u2019t know how good the Iranians are and they have a great history. Iran and Croatia have historical ties and I have to say I am feeling good there because it\u2019s a normal country,\u201d the 51-year-old coach added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve traveled around the world and I think the Iranian people are the most hospitable. I am not saying this because I am working there. I used to live there and the country is safer than so many European countries. However, traffic is a big problem there and their football is an organized chaos. The Persian cuisine is good as well,\u201d Skocic said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI have been appointed as Team Melli coach with the aim of helping them book a place at the 2022 World Cup qualification next stage. We are third in Group C but we know our strengths and weaknesses,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIranian players have high quality and Team Melli are the best Asian football team. The nation love football and we have a lot of work to do,\u201d Skocic concluded. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, National football team head coach Dragan Skocic says that the Iranian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":38739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38738","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-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1297,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38738","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=38738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38740,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38738\/revisions\/38740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}