{"id":46148,"date":"2022-06-28T07:16:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T14:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=46148"},"modified":"2022-06-28T07:16:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T14:16:24","slug":"ffiri-skocic-to-lead-iran-at-2022-world-cup-%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/06\/28\/ffiri-skocic-to-lead-iran-at-2022-world-cup-%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"FFIRI: Skocic to lead Iran at 2022 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Mirshad Majedi, acting president of the Iran football federation, says that they are not going to change the National Team head coach in the 2022 FIFA World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran, headed by Dragan Skocic, became the first Asian nation to book its place via the preliminaries in late January by beating neighbors Iraq 1-0 in Tehran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI believed in my work from (the) first but many underestimated me and didn&#8217;t respect me but I&#8217;m very happy because I&#8217;ve proved myself,\u201d the Croatian coach said in the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skocic is under contract with the Iran football federation until 2023 but he is under pressure after losing 2-1 to Algeria in Doha two weeks ago in a friendly match<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The critics say that the National Team need a well-known coach in the 2022 World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, Majedi said the federation has no enough time to make change to the coaching staff and Skocic will absolutely lead Iran in Qatar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are concentrating on holding a good preparatory camp in September. I\u2019ve always said Skocic will be Iran\u2019s coach in the World Cup,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran have been drawn in Group B along with England, the U.S. and Wales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Mirshad Majedi, acting president of the Iran football federation, says that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":46149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46148","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":1708,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46148","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=46148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46152,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46148\/revisions\/46152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}