{"id":45471,"date":"2022-04-05T17:38:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T00:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=45471"},"modified":"2022-04-05T17:38:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T00:38:38","slug":"preparation-is-the-key-to-success-skocic-%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/04\/05\/preparation-is-the-key-to-success-skocic-%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparation is the key to success: Skocic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team coach Dragan Skocic says that they need to prepare well for the 2022 FIFA World Cup since it\u2019s the key to success.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran has been drawn into Group B with England, the U.S., and one of either Scotland, Wales, or Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u2018Persian Leopards\u2019 are looking to book a spot in the next stage for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Croatian coach says that he expects the football federation of Iran to arrange good preparation for the 2022 World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve received several offers for the friendly matches and I expect the federation provides the best facilities for the national team,\u201d Skocic said in an interview with state-run TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will do our best to advance. Iran wants to advance for the first time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think our draw could have been worse. I didn\u2019t like to be paired with Germany, the Netherlands, and Croatia,\u201d Skocic said. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will renew it&#8217;s World Cup rivalry against the U.S. in Doha. The Persians defeated the American team 2-1 in the 1998 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is some story between the two countries but we just think about football. We respect them as a strong opponent but we will show a strong performance against them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scotland, Wales or Ukraine? Which team he prefers to play?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t care about that. We will wait for play-off match and prepare ourselves for the winners,\u201d he said. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIran football team have good training camp in Doha and it helps us prepare well for the World Cup. I expect 2022 FIFA World Cup to be one of the best World Cups in history in terms of organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIran is something different than people think. Everyone talks about the politics but I have never seen the hospitality that I have experienced in the country,\u201d Skocic concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team coach Dragan Skocic says that they need&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":45472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1263,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45471","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=45471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45474,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45471\/revisions\/45474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}