{"id":32787,"date":"2018-07-17T10:46:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T17:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32787"},"modified":"2018-07-17T10:46:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T17:46:55","slug":"iran-league-organization-must-apologize-to-esteghlals-fans-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/07\/17\/iran-league-organization-must-apologize-to-esteghlals-fans-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran League Organization must apologize to Esteghlal\u2019s fans: Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Esteghlal\u2019s board member Hassan Zamani has said the Iran Football League Organization must apologize to Esteghlal\u2019s fans after awarding Super Cup to Persepolis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following Esteghlal\u2019s withdrawal from Super Cup, the Iran Football League Organization announced Persepolis reclaimed the title for the second successive year.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 Super Cup was scheduled to be played on July 20 in Tehran\u2019s Aszadi Stadium between Iran Professional League champions (Persepolis) and Hazf Cup titleholders (Esteghlal).<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal announced they would not play Persepolis on July 20 since they are in Turkey at that time.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Iran Football League Organization announced the match has been postponed but Persepolis were surprisingly awarded the trophy a day after.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Iran Football League Organization must apologize to millions fans of Esteghlal for their decisions. We\u2019ve already announced that we cannot play on July 20,\u201d Zamani said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe never had a problem playing Persepolis but we could not play at that time since we are in Turkey until July 22,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Esteghlal\u2019s board member Hassan Zamani has said the Iran Football League&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-c20-other-news"],"views":802,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32787","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=32787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32789,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32787\/revisions\/32789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}