{"id":25905,"date":"2016-08-24T15:13:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T22:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=25905"},"modified":"2016-08-24T15:13:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T22:13:59","slug":"irans-arzpeyma-chosen-to-officiate-at-fifa-futsal-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/08\/24\/irans-arzpeyma-chosen-to-officiate-at-fifa-futsal-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Arzpeyma chosen to officiate at FIFA Futsal World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Iranian referee Vahid Arzpeyma has been chosen to officiate at next month\u2019s FIFA Futsal World Cup in Colombia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Asian Football Confederation Member Associations will provide eight of the 40 referees at the competition, after the full list of officials was revealed overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Futsal\u2019s elite global tournament, which begins on September 10, will feature whistleblowers from across the Asian continent, with representatives from East, West and Central Asia, as well as the ASEAN region set to take charge of matches.<\/p>\n<p>Asia\u2019s contribution of eight referees is bettered only by UEFA, who will provide ten, and CONMEBOL, who will contribute nine.<\/p>\n<p>All eight AFC referees selected for World Cup duty were present at the 2016 AFC Futsal Championship, including Japan\u2019s Tomohiro Kozaki, Australia\u2019s Chris Colley and Kyrgyzstan\u2019s Nurdin Bukuev \u2013 who took charge of the final and two semi-finals, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Bukuev is the only AFC referee on this year\u2019s list with FIFA Futsal World Cup experience, having taken charge of matches in 2008 and 2012.<\/p>\n<p>All matches at the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup will be refereed by four-man teams comprising a main referee, a second referee and two assistants.<\/p>\n<p>Asia\u2019s FIFA Futsal World Cup Referees:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vahid Arzpeyma Mohammreh (IRN)<\/strong><br \/>\nKhamis Hassan Al Shamsi (UAE)<br \/>\nNurdin Bukuev (KGZ)<br \/>\nChris Colley (AUS)<br \/>\nTomohiro Kozaki (JPN)<br \/>\nLiu Jianqiao (CHN)<br \/>\nRey Ritaga Martinez ( PHI)<br \/>\nTruong Qu?c Dung (VIE)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Iranian referee Vahid Arzpeyma has been chosen to officiate at next&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":25906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,88,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c15-futsal","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2000,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25905","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=25905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}