{"id":31729,"date":"2018-05-07T15:17:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T22:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=31729"},"modified":"2018-05-07T15:17:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T22:17:21","slug":"russia-2018-wc-bound-asian-match-officials-gather-for-two-day-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/05\/07\/russia-2018-wc-bound-asian-match-officials-gather-for-two-day-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia 2018: WC bound Asian match officials gather for two-day seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>A total of 17 match officials participated in the Asian Football Confederation World Cup Referees Seminar in the Malaysian capital on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The six referees, 11 assistant referees and one video assistant referee, who were selected to officiate at the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018, took part in the two-day seminar which included a series of team building sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to the accumulated technical and fitness experience over the past four years of preparatory stage, this last event aims at accentuating the group\u2019s camaraderie, communication and team management skills.<\/p>\n<p>The referees will be also provided with key messages and advice to ensure top refereeing performances at the FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>All selected match officials will take part in a final preparatory seminar at the FIFA World Cup match officials\u2019 HQ in Moscow 10 days prior to the kick off of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the AFC\u2019s contingent will operate in a variety of roles, e.g. referees, assistant referees, fourth officials, reserve assistant referees and video match officials.<\/p>\n<p>Asian referees who will officiate at Russia 2018 are Al Mirdasi Fahad (Saudi Arabia), <strong>Alireza Faghani (IR Iran)<\/strong>, Irmatov Ravshan (Uzbekistan), Mohamed Mohammed Abdulla (UAE), Sato Ryuji (Japan) and Shukralla Nawaf Abdulla (Bahrain).<\/p>\n<p>Assistant referees selected are Abdulla Tulefat Yaser Khalil (Bahrain), Al Abakry Mohammed (Saudi Arabia), Al-Marri Taleb (Qatar), Alhammadi Mohamed (UAE), Alshalwai Abdulah (Saudi Arabia), <strong>Mansouri Mohammadreza (IR Iran)<\/strong>, Rasulov Abdukhamidullo (Uzbekistan), Sagara Toru (Japan), Saidov Jakhongir (Uzbekistan) and <strong>Sokhandan Reza (IR Iran)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, A total of 17 match officials participated in the Asian Football&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":31730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,93,1,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-uncategorized","category-world-cup"],"views":798,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31729","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=31729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31731,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31729\/revisions\/31731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}