{"id":43495,"date":"2021-09-08T13:37:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T20:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43495"},"modified":"2021-09-08T13:37:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T20:37:53","slug":"iran-coach-skocic-on-verge-of-milestone-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/09\/08\/iran-coach-skocic-on-verge-of-milestone-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran coach Skocic on verge of milestone win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team coach Dragan Skocic is on the brink of his 10th consecutive win with the Iran national football team.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran defeated Iraq 3-0 in Group A of the 2022 World Cup qualification Tuesday night and equaled Mohammad Mayeli Kohan\u2019s nine-match winning streak in the National Team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, he needs one more win to set a new milestone with Iran national football team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skocic was appointed as Iran coach in February 2020 as Marc Wilmots\u2019s replacement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Croat started his career with Iran with three wins over Uzbekistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Syria in three friendly matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skocic made history with Iran in the 2022 World Cup qualification Round 2, beating Hong Kong, Cambodia, Bahrain, and Iraq in four must-win matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added two more wins to his tally in the matches against Syria and Iraq in the 2022 World Cup qualification Round 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will meet the UAE on Oct. 7th, and a win against Bert van Marwijk\u2019s team will result in Skocic\u2019s 10th win in a row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team coach Dragan Skocic is on the brink&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":43496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43495","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":1816,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43495","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=43495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43497,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43495\/revisions\/43497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}