{"id":21331,"date":"2015-04-28T22:08:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T05:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=21331"},"modified":"2015-04-28T22:08:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T05:08:50","slug":"iran-defender-banned-for-nine-months-for-fan-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/04\/28\/iran-defender-banned-for-nine-months-for-fan-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Defender Banned for Nine Months for Fan Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eurosport &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran international Mohammad Reza Khanzadeh has been handed a nine-month ban by the Iranian Football Federation (FFIRI) after being found guilty of attacking a fan in Qatar last week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Video footage showed the 23-year-old reaching out to strike a fan with his left hand following Persepolis&#8217; 3-0 AFC Champions League defeat to Lekhwiya. <\/p>\n<p>The defender could also be seen shouting at the supporter before being dragged onto the team bus by a Persepolis official. <\/p>\n<p>The Iranian club said in a statement they would appeal the sentence handed down by the FFIRI&#8217;s Disciplinary Committee to their defender, who missed selection for last year&#8217;s World Cup squad but was a late injury replacement at the Asian Cup in January. <\/p>\n<p>Persepolis host Uzbek side Bunyodkor in their final Group A match in the Champions League next week needing a win to guarantee a place in the last 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eurosport &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran international Mohammad Reza Khanzadeh has been handed a nine-month ban by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":21332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136,91,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":2192,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21331","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}