{"id":11579,"date":"2010-10-13T23:04:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T06:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/10\/13\/moradi-to-referee-tehran-derby\/"},"modified":"2010-10-13T23:04:41","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T06:04:41","slug":"moradi-to-referee-tehran-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/10\/13\/moradi-to-referee-tehran-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Moradi to referee Tehran derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/masoud-moradi.jpg\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Masoud Moradi will officiate Tehran derby between Esteghlal and Persepolis football teams on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moradi, who has been an official in the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup, said, \u201cHopefully I will have a good day in the derby on Friday. Of course, I have officiated bigger matches than the Esteghlal versus Persepolis game. I will do my best in the derby,\u201d said the 45-year-old referee.<\/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.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis and Esteghlal have played against each other 68 times. 31 matches ended in a draw, Esteghlal won 20 times, and Persepolis was victorious in 17 matches.<\/p>\n<p>The 69th derby will be held at the Azadi Stadium on Friday.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Masoud Moradi will officiate Tehran derby between Esteghlal and Persepolis football teams&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":11578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":4715,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11579","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\/22615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}