{"id":10988,"date":"2010-02-22T21:31:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T05:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/02\/22\/esteghlal-players-not-fingerprinted-in-jeddah\/"},"modified":"2010-02-22T21:31:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T05:31:26","slug":"esteghlal-players-not-fingerprinted-in-jeddah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/02\/22\/esteghlal-players-not-fingerprinted-in-jeddah\/","title":{"rendered":"Esteghlal players &#8216;not fingerprinted&#8217; in Jeddah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"EsteghlalFarewell1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/EsteghlalFarewell1.jpg\" height=\"369\" width=\"511\" \/>PTV &#8211; JEDDAH, <span id=\"ctl00_body_spnBody\"><strong>Iranian soccer club Esteqlal has denied reports that its players underwent fingerprinting upon their arrival in Saudi Arabia for an AFC Champions League match. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite claims by some internet sites, Esteqlal&#8217;s players were not fingerprinted,&#8221; the club said in a Sunday statement posted on its website. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nonetheless, they had to wait for about two hours in Jeddah airport for their visas to be granted,&#8221; the statement added. <\/p>\n<p>Esteqlal will play its first match in the 2010 AFC Champions League against Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Al Ahli on Tuesday. The group also includes Qatar&#8217;s Al Gharafa and the UAE&#8217;s Al Jazira. <br \/> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; JEDDAH, Iranian soccer club Esteqlal has denied reports that its players underwent fingerprinting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3778,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988","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=10988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}