{"id":43844,"date":"2021-10-11T07:57:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T14:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43844"},"modified":"2021-10-11T07:57:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T14:57:09","slug":"iran-motivated-to-play-south-korea-dragan-skocic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/10\/11\/iran-motivated-to-play-south-korea-dragan-skocic\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran motivated to play South Korea: Dragan Skocic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team coach Dragan Skocic says that they are motivated to play South Korea.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will host the Taeguk Warriors in Group A of the 2022 World Cup qualification Round 3 in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran lead the group with nine points and a victory put them within sight of a third successive FIFA World Cup appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have a very important match against South Korea and are motivated to play them. We have a lot of respect for Korea because they are an organized team,\u201d Skocic said in the prematch news conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are well-prepared for the match and keep a positive mental attitude,\u201d the Croat added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skocic has set a new record of 10 consecutive wins in all competitions with Iran, however it has not been enough to satisfy his critics so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what should I have done. I really don\u2019t know what\u2019s the people\u2019s expectations. We earned a valuable win over the UAE in a hot and humid condition. We will be doing everything to get better and this is our aim to play better in each match,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Korean stars Son Heung-min, Kim Min-jae, Hwang Hee-chan and Hwang Ui-jo have traveled to Tehran for this vital match. Skocic is wary of Son Heung-min\u2019s threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSon can change the game since he can both score and set goals up. South Korea have also several good players but I believe in my team,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skocic also showed his dissatisfaction with those who criticize the National Team under any condition.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSome coaches are going to replace me in the National Team but I have to say them it\u2019s not the right time,\u201d Skocic concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accompanying Skocic to the press conference, goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand said that he will do his best to register another clean sheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have shown we are a strong team in our previous 10 matches but we know that it will be quite different match since South Korea are a strong team. I will do my best not to concede a goal in the match against South Korea,\u201d Beiranvand said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team coach Dragan Skocic says that they are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":43845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43844","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":1233,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43844","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=43844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43846,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43844\/revisions\/43846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}