{"id":53989,"date":"2025-10-19T08:41:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T15:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=53989"},"modified":"2025-10-19T08:41:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T15:41:44","slug":"branko-ivankovic-close-to-persepolis-hot-seat-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/10\/19\/branko-ivankovic-close-to-persepolis-hot-seat-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Branko Ivankovic close to Persepolis hot seat [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis football club have opened negotiations with Croatian coach Branko Ivankovic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ivankovic, 71, was fired as China&#8217;s national team coach in late June following his side&#8217;s elimination from the qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The Croat has been linked with Persepolis and said he has had positive discussions with the club.<\/p>\n<p>Under his leadership, Persepolis won Iran\u2019s league titles in 2017, 2018, and 2019. He also guided Persepolis to the AFC Champions League final in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis CEO Reza Darvish resigned from his role hours after a 2-1 loss to Kheybar on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Vahid Hashemian is currently in charge of Persepolis, but the former Bayern Munich striker has yet to meet expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis football club have opened negotiations with Croatian coach Branko Ivankovic&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":53990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,172,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-persepolis","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":1136,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53989","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=53989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53991,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53989\/revisions\/53991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}