{"id":12416,"date":"2011-09-16T19:58:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T02:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/09\/16\/sepahans-acl-future-in-doubt\/"},"modified":"2011-09-16T19:58:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T02:58:06","slug":"sepahans-acl-future-in-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/09\/16\/sepahans-acl-future-in-doubt\/","title":{"rendered":"Sepahan&#8217;s ACL future in doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"sepahan-snow\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/sepahan-snow.jpg\" height=\"250\" width=\"250\" \/>GOAL &#8211; ESFAHAN, <strong>Qatari club Al Sadd are understood to have sent a letter to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) after AFC Champions League (ACL) quarter-final opponents Sepahan allegedly fielded an ineligible player in Wednesday&#8217;s first leg.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Iranian champions Sepahan won the clash in Isfahan 1-0, but Al Sadd are understood to have asked to have the result handed to them 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>Goal.com understands Al Sadd believe Sepahan goalkeeper Rahman Ahmadi was ineligible for the game after receiving two bookings earlier in the ACL.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmadi joined Sepahan recently from Persepolis, whom he played with earlier in the ACL.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian goalkeeper received bookings against Al Ittihad and Al Wahda in the group stage whilst with Persepolis.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ahmadi did not play in Sepahan&#8217;s Round of 16 clash with Bunyodkor.<\/p>\n<p>Both clubs will wait on the ruling of the AFC&#8217;s disciplinary committee.<\/p>\n<p>Only two months ago, Iran&#8217;s Olympic team made a similar mistake when they fielded Kamal Kamyabinia, who was an ineligible player after two previous bookings, in their second round qualifier against Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Iran won the match 1-0 in Iraq, but later had the result overturned to a 3-0 defeat, eventually seeing the team bow out of the qualifiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOAL &#8211; ESFAHAN, Qatari club Al Sadd are understood to have sent a letter to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":4312,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12416","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=12416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}