{"id":40727,"date":"2020-10-19T18:15:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T01:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40727"},"modified":"2020-10-19T18:15:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T01:15:48","slug":"skocic-knows-iranian-players-well-mehdi-taremi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/10\/19\/skocic-knows-iranian-players-well-mehdi-taremi\/","title":{"rendered":"Skocic knows Iranian players well: Mehdi Taremi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; PORTO, <strong>National football team forward Mehdi Taremi says that Dragan Skocic has a great knowledge of the Iranian players and it could be helpful in the remaining four matches in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taremi was on target in the friendly match against Uzbekistan in Tashkent on Oct. 8 and is one of Skocic\u2019s weapons in the upcoming matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bushehr-born hitman who currently plays at Porto, is optimistic about Iran\u2019s future under leadership of the Croat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSkocic has worked in Iran for many years and has a great knowledge of the Iranian players. He is a quality coach and can change our style and put us on the growth path. However, we need more friendly matches ahead of our qualifiers,\u201d the 28-year-old player added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, we lost to Bahrain and Iraq but they are not the teams to beat. We need continuous training if we want to qualify for the next stage. I think Skocic will be successful in Iran since he knows the players very well and is a skillful coach,\u201d Taremi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran prepare for the 2022 World Cup qualifiers, where they sit third in Group C behind Iraq and Bahrain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2022 World Cup qualifiers scheduled this year were postponed to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; PORTO, National football team forward Mehdi Taremi says that Dragan Skocic has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,89,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40727","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-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":1294,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40727","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=40727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40729,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40727\/revisions\/40729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}