{"id":32755,"date":"2018-07-14T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T18:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32755"},"modified":"2018-07-15T17:19:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T00:19:50","slug":"faghani-takes-charge-of-belgium-v-england-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/07\/14\/faghani-takes-charge-of-belgium-v-england-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"Faghani takes charge of Belgium v England encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; ST. PETERSBURG, <strong>Alireza Faghani of Islamic Republic of Iran was tasked with refereeing the 2018 FIFA World Cup third-place playoff between Belgium and England at the Saint Petersburg on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The exciting tie between Belgium and The Three Lions is Faghani&#8217;s fourth appointment in Russia 2018, after overseeing the Round of 16 tie between France and Argentina on June 30; the Group E tie between Serbia and Brazil on June 27 and the Group F match between Germany and Mexico on June 17.<\/p>\n<p>His appointment equals UAE&#8217;s Ali Bujsaim who officiated Sweden&#8217;s 4-0 win over Bulgaria in the 1994 FIFA World Cup USA third-place playoff at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.<\/p>\n<p>The experienced Iranian is appearing in his second FIFA World Cup and was assisted by compatriots Reza Sokhandan and Mohammadreza Mansouri &#8211; who also assisted Faghani in France&#8217;s 4-3 win against Argentina, Mexico&#8217;s 1-0 win over Germany as well as Brazil&#8217;s 2-0 triumph over Serbia.<\/p>\n<p>In Brazil 2014, the 2016 AFC Referee of the Year was the fourth official for seven matches, including the opening match between hosts Brazil and Croatia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; ST. PETERSBURG, Alireza Faghani of Islamic Republic of Iran was tasked with refereeing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,93,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32755","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":538,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32755","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=32755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32757,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32755\/revisions\/32757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}