{"id":25289,"date":"2016-05-25T12:59:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T19:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=25289"},"modified":"2016-05-25T12:59:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T19:59:28","slug":"alireza-faghani-to-referee-hazfi-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/05\/25\/alireza-faghani-to-referee-hazfi-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Alireza Faghani to referee Hazfi Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KHORRAMSHAHR, <strong>Alireza Faghani has been appointed to take charge of Sunday\u2019s Hazfi Cup final between Esteghlal and Zob Ahan at the Khorramshahr Stadium.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Referee Committee of Iran\u2019s Football Federation announced on Wednesday that Faghani will officiate the match.<\/p>\n<p>He will be assisted by Sajad Touri and Hossein Zahiri in the match, with Javad Sharafi acting as the fourth official.<\/p>\n<p>The match is the clash between two of the best teams in 2015-16 season as Esteghlal finished in third place while Zob Ahan finished in sixth.<\/p>\n<p>Zob Ahan has won the Hazfi Cup twice while they lost the final once. Esteghlal has won the Cup six times and they have finished as runner-up in third occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal and Zob Ahan have met each other 57 times; the Blues has won 25 games while Zob Ahan has 16 wins. Esteghlal has not won in its last eight games against Zob Ahan.n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KHORRAMSHAHR, Alireza Faghani has been appointed to take charge of Sunday\u2019s Hazfi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":25290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136,135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-irans-hazfi-cup"],"views":1651,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25289","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=25289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}