{"id":21388,"date":"2015-05-04T20:58:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T03:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=21388"},"modified":"2015-05-04T21:02:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T04:02:25","slug":"assistant-referee-hassan-kamranifar-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/05\/04\/assistant-referee-hassan-kamranifar-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistant Referee Hassan Kamranifar Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian international assistant referee Hassan Kamranifar has announced his retirement from refereeing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kamranifar has decided to retire after being involved with the game as a professional match official for 12 years.<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old assistant referee took part in two FIFA World Cups finals, the 2008 Olympic Games, the 2011 AFC Asian Cup and the 2014 FIFA Club World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The highlight of his career saw him perform the duties of an assistant referee during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa and as a fourth official during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to him participating in international events, Kamranifar was also a seasoned official and regularly participated in international friendlies, the IPL and the Asian Champions League matches.<\/p>\n<p>Kamranifar stated that although he would have liked to continue refereeing, his health issues were the deciding factor in his decision to end his career as a match official.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could go ahead until 2018, but I decided to retire due to an illness. I thank those who have supported me during the years,\u201d Kamranifar said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Persianfootball &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian international assistant referee Hassan Kamranifar has announced his retirement from refereeing&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":21391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,136,91,87,1,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-c20-other-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup","category-uncategorized","category-world-cup"],"views":1432,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21388","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=21388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}