{"id":15768,"date":"2013-09-04T11:34:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T18:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=15768"},"modified":"2013-09-04T11:34:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T18:34:30","slug":"alireza-faghani-to-referee-tehran-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/09\/04\/alireza-faghani-to-referee-tehran-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Alireza Faghani to referee Tehran derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Alireza Faghani has been appointed to take charge of Friday\u2019s Tehran derby between Esteghlal and Persepolis at the Azadi Stadium in Tehran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The referee committee of Iran\u2019s football federation announced on Wednesday that Faghani will officiate the match.<\/p>\n<p>He will be assisted by Reza Sokhandan and Rasoul Foroughi in the derby, with Yadollah Jahanbazi acting as fourth official.<\/p>\n<p>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<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal is third in the Iran Professional League table with 14 points after seven weeks, followed by Persepolis with 13 points.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal and Persepolis have played against each other 76 times, with Esteghlal winning 24 games, Persepolis taking 18 victories, and 34 matches ending in a draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Alireza Faghani has been appointed to take charge of Friday\u2019s Tehran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":13565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":2356,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15768","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=15768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}