{"id":20380,"date":"2015-01-24T05:33:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T13:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=20380"},"modified":"2015-01-24T05:33:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T13:33:42","slug":"fifa-confirms-iraqi-players-positive-doping-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/01\/24\/fifa-confirms-iraqi-players-positive-doping-test\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA confirms Iraqi player&#8217;s positive doping test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"DetailsText\">\n<div class=\"ToolsHolder\">\n<div class=\"clr \">Mehrnews.com &#8211; TEHRAN\/CANBERRA, <strong>FIFA confirmed 23-year-old Iraqi midfielder Alaa Abdul-Zahra had tested positive for doping.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After a formal complaint filed by Iranian Football Federation over fielding an ineligible player by Iraqi team in Friday&#8217;s quarter-final game, FIFA confirmed Iraqi midfielder had tested positive for doping.<\/p>\n<p>23-year-old Iraqi midfielder Alaa Abdul-Zahra allegedly failed a drug test when he was playing in Iran with Tractor Sazi Club.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq defeated 10-men Iran squad in penalties 7-6 after a tense 120-min game with 6 goals exchanged between the two teams on Friday to reach semi-finals facing with South Korea in <span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">2015 AFC Asian Cup<\/span> in Sydney on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Following the lawsuit filed against Iraqi team, Iranian side has delayed its exit from Australia due to AFC request awaiting a response from the world governing body, which is expected on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If approved, Iran would be announced th winner of the game 3-0 to head for next round instead of Iraq.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mehrnews.com &#8211; TEHRAN\/CANBERRA, FIFA confirmed 23-year-old Iraqi midfielder Alaa Abdul-Zahra had tested positive for doping&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":20381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20380","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":13000,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20380","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=20380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}