{"id":10954,"date":"2010-02-02T21:04:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T05:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/02\/02\/mozaffarizadeh-chosen-as-ref-of-tehran-derby\/"},"modified":"2010-02-02T21:04:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T05:04:15","slug":"mozaffarizadeh-chosen-as-ref-of-tehran-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/02\/02\/mozaffarizadeh-chosen-as-ref-of-tehran-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozaffarizadeh chosen as ref of Tehran derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"azad8i-teheran\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/azad8i-teheran.jpg\" height=\"331\" width=\"612\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Saeid Mozaffarizadeh has been named as the referee of the 68th derby of Tehran which will be held at the Azadi Stadium on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The referee committee of Iran\u2019s Football Federation (IFF) announced Mozaffarizadeh will officiate the Persepolis\u2013Esteghlal match. The 35-year-old referee will be assisted by Mohammad-Javad Taqipour and Hassan Kamranifar. \u2028<\/p>\n<p> The Tehran derby was acknowledged by the World Soccer magazine in June 2008 as the most important derby in Asia and the 22nd hottest match in the world.\u2028\u00a0\u2028After 13 years of hiring foreign referees, the IFF referee committee started using Iranian judges for the derby last year. Mohsen Torki was referee in the two previous derbies.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI am not a fan of any of the two teams, and I will just do my best to perform well in the derby,\u201d Mozaffarizadeh said.\u00a0 \u2028\u00a0\u2028Persepolis and Esteghlal have played against each other 67 times. 32 matches ended in a draw, Esteghlal won 20 times, and Persepolis was victorious in 15 matches. <\/p>\n<p>The last six matches between two teams finished in draws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Saeid Mozaffarizadeh has been named as the referee of the 68th derby&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":6746,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10954","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\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}