{"id":11216,"date":"2010-05-04T07:24:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T14:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/05\/04\/it-is-sepahan-in-iran\/"},"modified":"2010-05-04T07:24:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T14:24:09","slug":"it-is-sepahan-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/05\/04\/it-is-sepahan-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"It is Sepahan in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">AFC &#8211; <strong>Losing little time in putting behind them their AFC Champions  League <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/iranfootballonline.com\/UserFiles\/Image\/IPL_Teams\/Sepahan\/Sepahan_fans.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/>heartbreak, Sepahan lifted the Iran Pro League title on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With  two more rounds left in the league, a 2-2 draw with Abu Moslem in the  32nd round saw Sepahan reach 63 points, placing them six points out of  second-placed Zob Ahan\u2019s reach.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Amir Ghaleenoie was  ecstatic with the Esfahan-based club\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe changed out  squad 40 per cent as compared to last year but we managed to win the  championship. You can see my real team next season,\u201d said the former  Team Melli tactician.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won this marathon of 36 weeks and this  is the kind of race that is a good evaluation of the team and the coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI  take full responsibility for our failure in the ACL though we were a  bit unlucky. When I took charge Sepahan were fourth last season and I am  proud that I have led the team to the title.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sepahan\u2019s triumph &#8211;  the club\u2019s second league title after 2002-03 &#8211; comes in the same week  they had to endure the agony of crashing out of the AFC Champions League  race for the Round of 16 after a shock 2-0 loss to UAE\u2019s Al Ain on the  last match day.<\/p>\n<p>Emad Mohammed and Ehsan Hajsafi were on target  for Sepahan while Mohammad Hassan Rajabzadeh and Vahid Asgari made it  all square for Abu Moslem.<\/p>\n<p>Zob Ahan, who will host Mes Kerman in  the AFC Champions League Round of 16 clash on May 12, defeated  Moghavemat 2-0, thanks to goals from Farshid Talebi and Mohammad Reza  Khalatbari.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal, who will travel to Saudi Arabia for their  continental R16 clash against Al Shabab on May 11, edged past Shahin 1-0  to keep third position in the standings. Rinaldo Cruzado scored the  match-winner for Esteghlal.<\/p>\n<p>In other matches, Persepolis were  held goalless by Steel Azin, Mes defeated Teraktor 3-2, Esteghlal Ahvaz  drew 4-4 with Saipa, Saba Battery were held 1-1 by Foolad, Rah Ahan  sidelined Peykan 3-0 and Pas played a 1-1 draw with Malavan.<\/p>\n<p>STANDINGS:  1. Sepahan 63, 2. Zob Ahan 57, 3. Esteghlal 55, 4. Persepolis 52, 5.  Steel Azin 50.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/1\/1d\/SepahanACL2007.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; Losing little time in putting behind them their AFC Champions League heartbreak, Sepahan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":5563,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11216","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}