{"id":20376,"date":"2015-01-24T05:23:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T13:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=20376"},"modified":"2015-01-24T11:05:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T19:05:22","slug":"iraqs-quarter-final-win-thrown-into-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/01\/24\/iraqs-quarter-final-win-thrown-into-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq&#8217;s quarter-final win thrown into question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theworldgame.sbs.com.au\/article\/2015\/01\/24\/iraqs-quarter-final-win-thrown-question-after-iran-claims-ineligible-player\">SBS.com<\/a> &#8211; CANBERRA, <strong>EXCLUSIVE: The AFC Asian Cup has been rocked by allegations that Iraq fielded an ineligible player in Friday&#8217;s dramatic quarter-final win over Iran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden row field-body\">\n<p>Sources have told TWG that the Iranian Football Federation has made a formal complaint to FIFA concerning the eligibility\u00a0of Iraq midfielder Alaa Abdul Zahra.<\/p>\n<p>The complaint stems from an alleged doping violating during the time Abdul Zahra spent last year playing with Iranian club side Tractor Sazi.<\/p>\n<p>An AFC spokesperson confirmed to <strong>TWG<\/strong> that it is aware of the case and is awaiting further information from FIFA.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq beat Iran on penalties after a 3-3 draw in Canberra on Friday to earn the right to face Korea Republic in the semi-finals in Sydney on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s understood that the Iranian side has delayed its exit from Australia awaiting a response from the world governing body, which is expected on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Iran&#8217;s National Anti-Doping Agency deputy Ramin Tabatabaei told news agency\u00a0<em>Tasnim<\/em>\u00a0that Abdul Zahra failed a drug test when he was playing in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI informed Mr Sajjadi (vice-president of Professional and Athletic Sports Development) when we understood Team Melli would play Iraq in the quarter-final,\u201d Tabatabaei said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"field-label\">By<br \/>\n<\/span>Scott McIntyre<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SBS.com &#8211; CANBERRA, EXCLUSIVE: The AFC Asian Cup has been rocked by allegations that Iraq&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":20377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":5507,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20376","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\/22615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}