{"id":12483,"date":"2011-10-16T16:49:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T23:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/10\/16\/ghotbi-blasts-j-league-referees\/"},"modified":"2011-10-16T16:49:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T23:49:59","slug":"ghotbi-blasts-j-league-referees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/10\/16\/ghotbi-blasts-j-league-referees\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghotbi blasts J-League referees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"ghotbi_press\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ghotbi_press.jpg\" height=\"242\" width=\"330\" \/>GOAL &#8211; SHIMIZU, <span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"><strong>Shimizu S-Pulse Manager Afshin Ghotbi had  harsh criticism for match officials following his team&#8217;s 1-1 draw  against hosts Vissel Kobe on Saturday. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His reaction was spurred  by the case of Dutch defender Calvin Jong-a-Pin, who received two  cautions in the 77th minute of play and was summarily ejected. The  short-handed S-Pulse allowed Vissel to equalize in the 85th minute,  erasing their one-goal lead. <\/p>\n<p><\/span><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\">In his post-game press conference, Ghotbi  told reporters &#8220;It&#8217;s as though there are different rules for foreign and  Japanese players.&#8221; He continued, &#8220;Foreigners don&#8217;t draw fouls unless  they&#8217;re hit particularly hard, yet [the officials] will call a foul if  the foreign player so much as sneezes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Inconsistency in Japanese  officiating is a common observation by fans and foreign media, but  rarely is it discussed so bluntly by managers or other team officials.  The comments were not reported on J&#8217;s Goal, the league&#8217;s official  fan  site, but were posted in full on the club&#8217;s official website and   reported widely by Japanese newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>Ghotbi called on the  league to improve standards, saying &#8220;J-League is one of the top leagues  in the world, and because of that officiating standards also need to  improve.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOAL &#8211; SHIMIZU, Shimizu S-Pulse Manager Afshin Ghotbi had harsh criticism for match officials following&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c16-iranian-legionairs"],"views":4114,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12483","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=12483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}