{"id":11183,"date":"2010-04-24T06:02:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T13:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/04\/24\/persepolis-reaches-hazfi-cup-final\/"},"modified":"2010-04-24T06:02:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T13:02:37","slug":"persepolis-reaches-hazfi-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/04\/24\/persepolis-reaches-hazfi-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis reaches Hazfi Cup final [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Daei5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Daei5.jpg\" height=\"282\" width=\"371\" \/>PTV &#8211; TEHRAN, <span id=\"ctl00_body_spnBody\"><strong>Tehran&#8217;s popular soccer squad Persepolis  has advanced to the Iranian Hazfi Cup final following a 4-3 victory  against the 10-man Saba FC in penalty shootouts.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The two teams failed to score any goals in the 90 minutes of  regulation and the ensuing 30 minutes of overtime in front of 65,000  spectators at Tehran&#8217;s gigantic 100,000-seater Azadi Stadium on Friday  night.  <\/p>\n<p>Saba, coached by Rasoul Korbekandi, was playing with 10 men from the  91st minute after defender Morteza Kashi was sent off for a second  caution. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Playing against Saba FC was like a real final game. We defeated a  great team,&#8221; said Persepolis manager Ali Daei. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, we failed to take advantage of several opportunities  we created. We could have scored three goals in the last 15 minutes of  the game,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Persepolis deserved to win the game.&#8221;     <\/p>\n<p>This is the fifth time the Reds have reached the prestigious Hazfi  Cup final.  <\/p>\n<p>Daei&#8217;s men must now meet Gostaresh Foulad, which thrashed Zob Ahan  at the Yadegar-e Imam Stadium in Tabriz earlier on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The Hazfi Cup is a knockout cup competition in Iranian football, run  by the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI).<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnBody\"><\/span><strong>Video of the Penalty Shootout on <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">PFDCTV<\/span><\/span>:<\/strong><br \/><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnBody\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8ze0A_RbUik\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8ze0A_RbUik<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; TEHRAN, Tehran&#8217;s popular soccer squad Persepolis has advanced to the Iranian Hazfi Cup&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":3179,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11183","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=11183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}