{"id":31584,"date":"2018-04-26T10:10:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T17:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31584"},"modified":"2018-04-26T10:10:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T17:10:48","slug":"in-the-book-who-is-iranian-referee-alireza-faghani-and-how-many-world-cups-has-he-officiated-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/04\/26\/in-the-book-who-is-iranian-referee-alireza-faghani-and-how-many-world-cups-has-he-officiated-at\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Book: Who is Iranian referee Alireza Faghani and how many World Cup\u2019s has he officiated at?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sun &#8211; LONDON, <strong>Vastly experienced Iranian has taken charge of a number of high-profile AFC finals and is on the way to Russia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>REFEREEING on the biggest stage requires experience and firmness &#8211; and Alireza Faghani has them both.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian whistler has been chosen as one of the 36 officials for this summer&#8217;s World Cup in Russia and has bags of big-game know-how on his side.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s all you need to know about the ref from Iran.<br \/>\nWho is Alireza Faghani?<br \/>\nTHE son of a referee, Faghani spent seven seasons in the Persian Gulf Pro League before making the jump to internationals.<\/p>\n<p>Originally a player in the lower Iranian leagues, he became a ref and joined the Fifa-elite list just one year after making his top-flight debut.<\/p>\n<p>With VAR in play this summer, you may remember Faghani from the Confed Cup where he failed to give Chile a penalty and refused to view the TV monitor.<\/p>\n<p>In his career the Iranian has been in charge for the finals of the 2014 AFC Champions League, 2015 AFC Asian Cup, 2015 Club World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Faghani is also registerd in the Indonesian League and takes charge of domestic games in the top-flight.<\/p>\n<p>Expect to see plenty of cards in the games that the Iranian takes charge of in Russia &#8211; he dishes out an average of 4.40 per match.<\/p>\n<p>Has he officiated at the World Cup before?<br \/>\nFAGHANI was at the 2014 World Cup &#8211; but was named as a fourth official for the opener between Brazil and Croatia.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also been on the big stage at the Olympics and numerous AFC Cup finals around the continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sun &#8211; LONDON, Vastly experienced Iranian has taken charge of a number of high-profile&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,93,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-world-cup"],"views":1740,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31584","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=31584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31586,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31584\/revisions\/31586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}