{"id":29279,"date":"2017-10-02T15:03:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T22:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29279"},"modified":"2017-10-02T15:03:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T22:03:30","slug":"fifa-ban-saeid-ezatolahi-for-irans-world-cup-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/10\/02\/fifa-ban-saeid-ezatolahi-for-irans-world-cup-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA ban Saeid Ezatolahi for Iran&#8217;s World Cup opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN FC &#8211; ZURICH, <strong>FIFA has banned Iran midfielder Saeid Ezatolahi from his team&#8217;s first game at the World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FIFA says its disciplinary panel imposed a two-game suspension on the 21-year-old Ezatolahi for his red card against South Korea in a qualifying match in Seoul on Aug. 31.<\/p>\n<p>Ezatolahi brought his boot down on the head of South Korea midfielder Kim Min-jae, who had fallen facing the turf after the two clashed in an aerial challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The first game of Ezatolahi&#8217;s suspension was served by missing a 2-2 draw with Syria five days later, which completed Iran&#8217;s qualifying program.<\/p>\n<p>Iran, coached by Carlos Queiroz, was the first Asian team to advance to play at the World Cup in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Ezatolahi plays with Amkar Perm, on loan from Russian league rival Rostov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN FC &#8211; ZURICH, FIFA has banned Iran midfielder Saeid Ezatolahi from his team&#8217;s first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,91,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":4919,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29279","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=29279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}