{"id":27038,"date":"2017-01-26T13:10:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T21:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27038"},"modified":"2017-01-26T13:10:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T21:10:55","slug":"alireza-faghani-to-referee-tehran-derby-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/01\/26\/alireza-faghani-to-referee-tehran-derby-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Alireza Faghani to referee Tehran derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian international referee Alireza Faghani will most likely officiate Tehran derby between Persepolis and Esteghlal next month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ashkan Khorshidi and Bijan Heydari have been also nominated to officiate the derby but the referees have never whistled the important match so far.<\/p>\n<p>Alireza Faghani made history by becoming the first Asian referee to officiate the final of a Men&#8217;s Olympic.<\/p>\n<p>The 84th derby will be held in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium on February 12.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal leads the head to head results in competitive matches with 24 wins to Persepolis&#8217;s 20, while 39 matches ended in a draw.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran derby is a football match between the two prominent Tehran clubs Esteghlal (Blues) and Persepolis (Reds).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian international referee Alireza Faghani will most likely officiate Tehran derby between&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division"],"views":2961,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27038","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=27038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}