{"id":12714,"date":"2012-02-01T18:38:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T02:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/02\/01\/faghani-appointed-tehran-derby-referee\/"},"modified":"2012-02-01T18:38:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T02:38:52","slug":"faghani-appointed-tehran-derby-referee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/02\/01\/faghani-appointed-tehran-derby-referee\/","title":{"rendered":"Faghani appointed Tehran derby referee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/cache\/multithumb_thumbs\/c_330_235_16777215_0___images_stories_feb02_02_13-2.jpg\" \/>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Alireza Faghani has been appointed the referee for Thursday\u2019s derby meeting between Persepolis and Esteghlal.<\/strong> <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Iran\u2019s football federation referee committee announced Alireza Faghani will officiate the match, which will be played in Tehran&#8217;s Azadi Stadium. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>He will be assisted by Hassan Kamranifar and Reza Sokhandan in the derby, while Saeid Bakhshizadeh will be the fourth official. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The Tehran derby was chosen as the most important in Asia and the 22nd important derby in the world on June 2008 by the World Soccer Magazine <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Esteghlal is now on top of the Iran Professional League table with 46 points after seven weeks, and Persepolis is 8th with 30 points. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Esteghlal and Persepolis have played against each other 73 times, of which Esteghlal has won 25 games, Persepolis won 17 victories, and 31 matches ending in a draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN TIMES &#8211; TEHRAN, Alireza Faghani has been appointed the referee for Thursday\u2019s derby meeting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":2769,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12714","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=12714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}