{"id":32197,"date":"2018-06-03T21:55:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T04:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32197"},"modified":"2018-06-03T21:55:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T04:55:33","slug":"alireza-faghani-on-retirement-after-2018-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/06\/03\/alireza-faghani-on-retirement-after-2018-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Alireza Faghani on retirement after 2018 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Alireza Faghani, Iranian international referee, has hinted that he may retire from officiating after the 2018 World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old referee, who will officiate the 2018 World Cup, is going to hang up his whistle after the prestigious event in Russia.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cAs a referee, I need motivation to keep going. I will likely quit if I cannot stay motivated after the World Cup,\u201d Faghani said.  <\/p>\n<p>FIFA has confirmed Video Assistant Referee (VAR) will be used at the World Cup finals in Russia and Faghani agrees with this technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI respect those who believe VAR doesn\u2019t work but I think it can avoid mistakes during a football match,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Alireza Faghani, Iranian international referee, has hinted that he may retire&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,93,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32197","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":1016,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32197","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=32197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32199,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32197\/revisions\/32199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}