{"id":39500,"date":"2020-06-21T07:43:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T14:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=39500"},"modified":"2020-06-21T07:43:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T14:43:31","slug":"iran-coach-dragan-skocic-arrives-in-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/06\/21\/iran-coach-dragan-skocic-arrives-in-tehran\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran coach Dragan Skocic arrives in Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team coach Dragan Skocic returned to Tehran early Sunday after more than three months.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He left Tehran in mid-March after the training of the national team was canceled due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iran Professional League will resume on Wednesday and Skocic is supposed to monitor the competitions since Iran national football team prepare for the 2022 World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201cPersian Leopards\u201d will have to win their four remaining matches to book a place at the qualification\u2019s next stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Asian Football Confederation (AFC), in consultation with FIFA, has announced the proposed match dates for the remaining matches of Round 2 in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 and AFC Asian Cup China 2023 Asian Qualifiers after the competitions were canceled due to coronavirus. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matchdays 7 and 8 are now scheduled to take place on October 8 and 13, 2020 respectively while Matchdays 9 and 10 are due to kick off on November 12 and 17, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran sit third in Group C, five points behind Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team coach Dragan Skocic returned to Tehran early&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":39194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39500","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-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":517,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39500","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=39500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39501,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39500\/revisions\/39501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}