{"id":40920,"date":"2020-11-10T10:55:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T18:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40920"},"modified":"2020-11-10T10:55:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T18:55:20","slug":"iran-make-progress-every-year-dragan-skocic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/11\/10\/iran-make-progress-every-year-dragan-skocic\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran make progress every year: Dragan Skocic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>National Team head coach Dragan Skocic praised the Iranian football team, saying they are making progress every year.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran are scheduled to meet Bosnia and Herzegovina football team in a friendly match on Thursday as part of preparation for the 2022 World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Iranian national football team, along with Japan, are the best Asian national team. This is confirmed by FIFA&#8217;s ranking list. Iran are making progress every year. I am honored to be selected as the team coach,\u201d Skocic said in an exclusive interview with Sportske.ba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIranians are the most hospitable and welcoming people in the world. I am not saying that because I am coach of Iran. Anyone who has ever been in Iran for at least one day, will confirm that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran national football team will meet Bosnia behind closed the doors at the Asim Ferhatovi\u0107-Hase Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI really appreciate the Bosnian football federation for arranging the friendly. Needless to talk about quality of some Bosnian players. BiH have always had high quality players. &nbsp;Miralem Pjanic is a world class player. I want Bosnia to win their matches, but the match against us,\u201d the Croat concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, National Team head coach Dragan Skocic praised the Iranian football team,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40920","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":934,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40920","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=40920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40922,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40920\/revisions\/40922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}