{"id":15807,"date":"2013-09-08T12:26:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T19:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=15807"},"modified":"2013-09-08T13:07:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T20:07:08","slug":"esteghlal-technical-director-hits-out-at-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/09\/08\/esteghlal-technical-director-hits-out-at-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal technical director hits out at media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal technical director Mansour Pourheidari blamed the Iranian media after they criticized the poor quality of Tehran derby.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal and Persepolis played out a goalless draw in the eighth week of the Iranian Professional League (IPL) on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In a lackluster performance that left about 100,000 spectators at Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium disappointed, neither Esteghlal nor Persepolis was able to find the net.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody is satisfied with this match. I believe that derby attracts a lot of attention and the media is going overboard to sensationalize news,\u201d Pourheidari said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEsteghlal could have won the match. Jlloyd Samuel squandered a good chance in the second half,\u201d Pourheidari added.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal and Persepolis have played each other 77 times, with Esteghlal winning 24 games, Persepolis taking 18, and 35 matches ending in a draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal technical director Mansour Pourheidari blamed the Iranian media after they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":15809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":2274,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}