{"id":26844,"date":"2017-01-05T13:27:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T21:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=26844"},"modified":"2017-01-05T13:35:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T21:35:46","slug":"iranian-referee-mohsen-torky-hangs-uup-whistle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/01\/05\/iranian-referee-mohsen-torky-hangs-uup-whistle\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian referee Mohsen Torky hangs up whistle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Mohsen Torky, Iran football&#8217;s high-profile match official, has retired as a referee at the age of 43.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mohsen Torky, who was the first Iranian referee to officiate the Tehran derby between Persepolis and Esteghlal after 14 years, announced his retirement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He started to officiate in the top league in Iran in 2000 and after just three years he became a FIFA listed referee. In 2007 Torky became an AFC Elite referee.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006 he refereed his first game in the AFC Champions League between Al-Arabi and Al Quwa Al Jawiya and in 2007 he officiated an AFC Cup semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2008-09 season Torky officiated four games in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>He also officiated four games in the group stage of the 2009 AFC Champions League but the biggest test of Torky&#8217;s career came in the 66th Tehran derby when he became the first Iranian referee to officiate the game in 14 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Mohsen Torky, Iran football&#8217;s high-profile match official, has retired as a referee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":26845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136,91,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-c20-other-news","category-uncategorized"],"views":2568,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26844","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=26844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}