{"id":29552,"date":"2017-10-23T11:52:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T18:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=29552"},"modified":"2017-10-23T11:52:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T18:52:34","slug":"bijan-heydari-chosen-to-officiate-tehran-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/10\/23\/bijan-heydari-chosen-to-officiate-tehran-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Bijan Heydari chosen to officiate Tehran derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">TehranTimes &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The committee referee of The Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran has chosen Bijan Heydari as referee of Tehran derby.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p>The 37-year-old referee will be assisted by Reza Sokhandan and Saeid Alinejadian in this match.<\/p>\n<p>The 85th Tehran derby between Iranian giants Esteghlal and Persepolis will be held at the Azadi Stadium on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>This battle between two teams that share an 80,000-capacity stadium is considered the biggest derby in all of Asia<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis sit third in Iran Professional League table with 17 points, eight points ahead of Esteghlal who remain in 13th place.<\/p>\n<p>The two teams have played against each other 84 times, with Esteghlal winning 25 games, Persepolis taking 22 victories, and 37 matches ending in a draw.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TehranTimes &#8211; TEHRAN, The committee referee of The Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,87,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":2401,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29552","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}