{"id":29349,"date":"2017-10-09T13:14:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T20:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29349"},"modified":"2017-10-09T13:14:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T20:14:12","slug":"fifa-u-17-world-cup-american-referee-marrufo-to-officiate-iran-vs-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/10\/09\/fifa-u-17-world-cup-american-referee-marrufo-to-officiate-iran-vs-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA U-17 World Cup: American referee Marrufo to officiate Iran vs. Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; MARGAO, <strong>Jair Marrufo has been chosen to officiate Iran and Germany in the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran started with a 3-1 win over Guinea in Group C on Saturday, while Germany earned a late 2-1 victory over Costa Rica.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will play Germany at the Fatorda Stadium in Margao, India on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Jair Marrufo, 40, is an American soccer referee of Mexican descent. He has been a referee in Major League Soccer since 2002 and a FIFA referee since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Marrufo was 2008 MLS Referee of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; MARGAO, Jair Marrufo has been chosen to officiate Iran and Germany in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":29350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,170,91,86,110,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-iran-u17","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":2412,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29349","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=29349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}