{"id":12530,"date":"2011-11-02T18:53:27","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T01:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/11\/02\/iran-bans-footballers-for-immoral-goal-celebration\/"},"modified":"2011-11-02T18:53:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T01:53:27","slug":"iran-bans-footballers-for-immoral-goal-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/11\/02\/iran-bans-footballers-for-immoral-goal-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran bans footballers for &#8216;immoral&#8217; goal celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Nosrati\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Nosrati.jpg\" height=\"199\" width=\"282\" \/>BBC &#8211; TEHRAN,<strong> The Iranian football federation has given indefinite suspensions to two players for &#8220;immoral acts&#8221; during goal-scoring celebrations, state TV says.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Footage posted online shows Persepolis defender Mohammed Nosrati squeezing teammate Sheis Rezaei&#8217;s bottom. <\/p>\n<p>Another video seems to show Rezaei squeezing a teammate later in the 3-2 Persepolis victory over Damash Gilan. The game was broadcast live to millions. Nosrati and Rezaei have said they did not intend to offend anyone.<\/p>\n<p>The two &#8220;have been banned indefinitely from all football activities for committing immoral acts&#8221;, AFP news agency quoted Ismail Hasanzadeh, the head of the Iranian football federation&#8217;s disciplinary committee, as saying.<\/p>\n<p>AFP said the two players have also been suspended by Persepolis and fined nearly $40,000 (\u00a325,000) each.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamic republic&#8217;s football federation has been trying for years to curb what it considers immoral behaviour on the field and foul language among players and spectators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC &#8211; TEHRAN, The Iranian football federation has given indefinite suspensions to two players for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":12253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":4626,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12530","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=12530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}