{"id":29013,"date":"2017-09-08T13:21:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T20:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29013"},"modified":"2017-09-08T13:21:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T20:21:44","slug":"iriff-president-denies-match-fixing-claims-due-to-result-of-iran-vs-syria-wcq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/09\/08\/iriff-president-denies-match-fixing-claims-due-to-result-of-iran-vs-syria-wcq\/","title":{"rendered":"IRIFF President denies match-fixing claims due to result of Iran vs. Syria WCQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Head of Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) Mehdi Taj has denied match-fixing claims between Iran and Syria teams.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran was held to a 2-2 draw by Syria in the 2018 World Cup qualifier in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The draw was enough to give Syria third place in Group A and a spot in the Asian play-offs against Australia, who came third in Group B.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the matches will go into an intercontinental clash against the fourth-placed side from the CONCACAF federation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSyria has always been a strong rival for Iran football team. Our players did their best in the match against Syria but we conceded a late equalizer. There was no match-fixing,\u201d Taj said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Head of Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) Mehdi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":25426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":5153,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29013","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=29013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}