{"id":23622,"date":"2015-12-21T11:14:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T19:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=23622"},"modified":"2015-12-21T11:14:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T19:14:17","slug":"alireza-faghani-becomes-a-real-ambassador-for-iranian-refereeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/12\/21\/alireza-faghani-becomes-a-real-ambassador-for-iranian-refereeing\/","title":{"rendered":"Alireza Faghani becomes a real ambassador for Iranian refereeing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; YOKOHAMA, <strong>Alireza Faghani has been our No 1 referee for the last 20 years, representing Iran abroad.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>He made history by officiating the Sunday\u2019s FIFA Club World Cup final, where Barcelona defeated River Plate 3-0 at the International Stadium in Yokohama, Japan. <\/p>\n<p>Faghani controlled the match well and kept his cool in the heat of battle, however there was a hint of handball as Lionel Messi controlled the ball from Neymar and opened the scoring shortly after the half-hour mark. <\/p>\n<p>21 years ago, Iranian referee Mohammad Fanaei was as a linesman for the final of the FIFA World Cup between Brazil and Italy, where the Brazilian team defeated the Azzurri 3-2 in penalty shootout. <\/p>\n<p>He had already worked as an assistant referee at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. <\/p>\n<p>Fanaei was subsequently an assistant referee in two matches during the 1995 King Fahd Cup (pre-cursor competition to the FIFA Confederations Cup), including the Final between Denmark and Argentina. <\/p>\n<p>In 1994, he was named &#8220;&#8221;Linesman of the Year&#8221;&#8221; in the Asian Football Confederation. <\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, Faghani is the best Iranian referee who is representing the country abroad. <\/p>\n<p>Faghani was named as the fourth referee for the opening match of the 2014 FIFA World Cup between Brazil and Croatia. <\/p>\n<p>He also refereed the 2014 AFC Champions League Final first leg match between Al-Hilal and Western Sydney Wanderers.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old is also one of the officials of the 2015 AFC Asian Cup, refereeing his first match in Group B between Saudi Arabia and China. <\/p>\n<p>Faghani was appointed to referee the 2015 AFC Asian Cup Final, which was contested by South Korea and Australia. <\/p>\n<p>Without a doubt, Faghani will be selected as an Asian referee in the 2016 FIFA World Cup in Russia. He has become a real ambassador for Iran refereeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; YOKOHAMA, Alireza Faghani has been our No 1 referee for the last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":23623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,136,91,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-iran-first-division","category-c20-other-news","category-uncategorized"],"views":3361,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23622","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=23622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}