{"id":18644,"date":"2014-06-23T13:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T20:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=18644"},"modified":"2014-06-24T13:08:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T20:08:54","slug":"iran-lodges-complaint-to-fifa-over-serbian-referee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/06\/23\/iran-lodges-complaint-to-fifa-over-serbian-referee\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran lodges complaint to FIFA over Serbian referee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; BELO HORIZONTE,<strong> The Iranian Football Federation (IFF) has submitted a complaint to FIFA against Serbian referee Milorad Mazic, for what they deem to be poor officiating during their 1-0 defeat by Argentina.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian team lost to Argentina 1-0 in Group F of the 2014 FIFA World Cup on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>In the 54th minute, Pablo Zabaleta tripped Dejagah in the box but Mazic did not award a penalty to the Iranian football team. .<\/p>\n<p>Iran coach Carlos Queiroz was furious with the decision and said that his team should have been awarded a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a clear penalty. Millions of people saw that. I don\u2019t understand it, he had to have seen it was a penalty,\u201d Queiroz said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was five meters away, there is no way he couldn\u2019t have seen it. I have the right to say this and I only hope I am now not punished for telling the truth because it was a decision that nobody can understand,\u201d the Portuguese added.<\/p>\n<p>Mehdi Mohammad Nabi, IFF General Secretary, said that they have sent a complaint to FIFA against Mazic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery 50-50 decision went to Argentina and I think it\u2019s not fair. The referee also denied our clear penalty,\u201d Nabi said.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will play Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday knowing a win could send them into the last 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; BELO HORIZONTE, The Iranian Football Federation (IFF) has submitted a complaint to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":18640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":4832,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18644","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=18644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}