{"id":16291,"date":"2013-11-02T14:09:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T21:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=16291"},"modified":"2013-11-02T14:15:24","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T21:15:24","slug":"persepolis-into-irans-hazfi-cup-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/11\/02\/persepolis-into-irans-hazfi-cup-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis into Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Persepolis football team booked a place in the Iran\u2019 Hazfi Cup quarterfinals after beating Hamedan-based Alvand on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian giant beat the Iranian first division Alvand 2-0 in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Reza Haghighi gave Persepolis a 13th minute lead with a long-range deflected shot that beat Alvand&#8217;s goalkeeper Hadi Zarrin-Saed.<\/p>\n<p>Omid Alishah extended Persepolis\u2019 lead with a header in the 68th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Reza Haghighi was chosen as the best player of the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we won a game we deserved to win. We could have scored more goals but our strikers didn\u2019t advantage of their chances,\u201d Persepolis coach Ali Daei said in the post match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis qualified for the quarterfinals and will play winner of the match between Foolad Khuzestan and Foolad Novin.<\/p>\n<p>The Hazfi Cup is a knockout cup competition in Iranian football, run by the Iranian Football Federation.<\/p>\n<p>The competition was founded in 1975. Esteghlal has won the cup on the most occasions, with 6 wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Persepolis football team booked a place in the Iran\u2019 Hazfi Cup&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":16293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":2706,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16291","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=16291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}