{"id":20391,"date":"2015-01-24T23:26:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T07:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=20391"},"modified":"2015-01-24T23:26:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T07:26:20","slug":"iran-fails-in-iraqs-alaa-abdul-zahra-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/01\/24\/iran-fails-in-iraqs-alaa-abdul-zahra-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Fails in Iraq&#8217;s Alaa Abdul Zahra Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>tasnimnews &#8211; Sydney, <strong>Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has dismissed Iran\u2019s appeal questioning the Iraqi Alaa Abdul Zahra&#8217;s eligibility to represent his team during clash against Team Melli (the Iranian national football team).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The protest claims Alaa Abdul-Zahra should have been suspended after submitting a positive doping test while playing for his Iranian club side Tractor Sazi.<\/p>\n<p>AFC has confirmed that they have rejected a protest from Iran over the eligibility of Iraqi midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq beat Iran 7-6 on penalties in the 2015 AFC Asian Cup quarter-final after the match finished 3-3 at the end of extra time and is scheduled to play South Korea in a semi-final in Sydney Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tasnimnews &#8211; Sydney, Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has dismissed Iran\u2019s appeal questioning the Iraqi Alaa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20391","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":4884,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20391","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}