{"id":30431,"date":"2018-01-16T21:33:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T05:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=30431"},"modified":"2018-01-16T21:34:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T05:34:34","slug":"four-referees-from-iran-will-officiate-at-afc-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/01\/16\/four-referees-from-iran-will-officiate-at-afc-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Four referees from Iran selected to officiate at AFC Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Tribune &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>The Asia Football Confederation has officially invited four Iranian referees to officiate at the AFC Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The center referee Payam Heidari together with his assistants Ali Mirzabeigi and Arman As\u2019adi will judge the match between Al-Zawra\u2019a FC from Iraq and Al-Jaish FC from Syria on February 26, Varzesh3 reported.<\/p>\n<p>Doha, the capital of Qatar will host the game. Seyyed Vahid Kazemi has been appointed as the fourth referee of the match.<\/p>\n<p>The AFC Cup is an annual international association football competition between domestic clubs run by the AFC.<\/p>\n<p>Qualification for the competition is available to clubs from AFC-affiliated countries that fall into the AFC\u2019s \u2018developing nations\u2019 category as laid out in their \u2018Vision Asia\u2019 document.<\/p>\n<p>Countries known as \u2018emerging\u2019 nations are eligible to participate in the AFC Cup qualifying play-off, whereas countries which have better infrastructure and football prowess play in the AFC Champions League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Tribune &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, The Asia Football Confederation has officially invited four Iranian referees&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":30432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,91,165,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-c20-other-news","category-persian-gulf-pro-league","category-uncategorized"],"views":1742,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30431","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=30431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}