{"id":42716,"date":"2021-06-15T15:10:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T22:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=42716"},"modified":"2021-06-15T15:10:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T22:10:03","slug":"dragan-skocic-proud-of-team-melli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/06\/15\/dragan-skocic-proud-of-team-melli\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragan Skocic proud of Team Melli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; MUHARRAQ, <strong>Iran national football team coach Dragan Skocic says that he is proud of his team after booking a place at the third round of 2022 World Cup qualifiers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u2018Persian Leopards\u2019 defeated Iraq 1-0 courtesy of Sardar Azmoun\u2019s first-half goal. Iran finished Group C as winners, followed by Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe ended a tough tournament because we were under pressure to win our four matches. I want to congratulate my players for their effort,\u201d Skocic said in the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBefore the match kicks off, I asked my men to play without any stress but playing against such a team without showing any nerves is very difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe played organized in the first half but I was not satisfied with the way we played in the second half despite having several goalscoring chances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter we scored the goal, the team lost control of the match and this made me upset. But, we have to remember that every match was like a knockout match for us and it made our job difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIran deserved to win a spot in the third stage of qualifiers. I am very happy and proud to lead the Iranian players. Hopefully, we can continue our good run in the next stage, Skocic concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; MUHARRAQ, Iran national football team coach Dragan Skocic says that he is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":42717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42716","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":1256,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42716","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=42716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42718,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42716\/revisions\/42718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}