{"id":42728,"date":"2021-06-16T14:11:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T21:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=42728"},"modified":"2021-06-16T14:11:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T21:11:42","slug":"iran-coach-dragan-skocic-out-of-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/06\/16\/iran-coach-dragan-skocic-out-of-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran coach Dragan Skocic out of contract"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>National football team coach Dragan Skocic\u2019s contract expired with Iran after the end of the 2022 World Cup qualification Round 2.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 52-year-old Croatian coach was named as Iran coach in February 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skocic became the second Iran coach who began his tenure with seven consecutive wins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Irish coach Frank O&#8217;Farrell was the first coach who registered seven wins in a row in 1974.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under leadership of Skocic, Iran defeated Uzbekistan, Syria and Bosnia and Herzegovina in three friendly matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u2018Persian Leopards\u2019 also defeated Hong Kong, Bahrain, Cambodia and Iraq in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers in Bahrain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Head of Iran football federation Aziziz Khadem has said that the Board of Directors will make decision on Skocic\u2019s future in the national team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The third round of AFC matches for the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification will be played from Sept. 2, 2021 to Mar. 29, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 12 teams will be divided into two groups of six with the draw taking place on 1 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, National football team coach Dragan Skocic\u2019s contract expired with Iran after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":42729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42728","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":1724,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42728","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=42728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42730,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42728\/revisions\/42730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}