{"id":46998,"date":"2022-09-22T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=46998"},"modified":"2022-09-22T18:07:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T01:07:20","slug":"former-team-melli-coachdragan-skocic-leaves-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/09\/22\/former-team-melli-coachdragan-skocic-leaves-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Team Melli coach Dragan Skocic leaves Iran\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former Iran national football team head coach Dragan Skocic left Tehran for Croatia on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 54-year-old coach was replaced by Carlos Queiroz on September 7th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skocic took over from Marc Wilmots as coach in February 2020 and secured Team Melli a spot in Qatar\u2019s World Cup by topping their qualification group ahead of South Korea in late January and booked its place at the prestigious event as the first Asian team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skocic earned 15 wins out of 18 games in charge but lost two of his last three matches, including a 2-1 friendly defeat against&nbsp;Algeria in Qatar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran has been drawn in Group B of the 2022 FIFA World Cup along with England, the US, and Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/1401061415011738126033744-700x487.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/1401061415011738126033744-700x487.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/1401061415011738126033744-350x244.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/1401061415011738126033744-144x100.jpeg 144w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/1401061415011738126033744-768x535.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/1401061415011738126033744.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Former Iran national football team head coach Dragan Skocic left Tehran for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":46999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46998","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-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":967,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46998","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=46998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47002,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46998\/revisions\/47002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}