{"id":32802,"date":"2018-07-18T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32802"},"modified":"2018-07-18T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T20:01:00","slug":"we-didnt-withdraw-but-requested-to-change-match-date-esteghlal-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/07\/18\/we-didnt-withdraw-but-requested-to-change-match-date-esteghlal-official\/","title":{"rendered":"We didn\u2019t withdraw but requested to change match date: Esteghlal Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mehr News &#8211; TEHRAN,<strong> In a statement published in its official website, Estaghlal FC has highlighted that they haven\u2019t withdraw from Super Cup final against Persepolis, but just requested for a change of date.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran Football League Organization announced on Tuesday that Super Cup title goes to Persepolis due to Esteghlal\u2019s withdrawal from the final match that was scheduled on July 20.<\/p>\n<p>Following this announcement, Esteghlal published the letter that they had sent to Iran Football League Organization, saying that there is no word relating to \u2018withdrawal\u2019 in it.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Esteghlal requested from the organization to publish any other letter that they have which includes the official withdrawal of the team from the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnnouncing a 3-0 result for not playing in a match has its own formalities which should be carried out including the presence of the rival team, referees and match supervisor in the scheduled date. We ask them [Iran Football League Organization] to obey laws of football instead of adopting hasty and emotional decisions,\u201d part of the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am surprised by this decision. Everyone knows that this season is very tough because of the World Cup and the AFC Asian Cup, and because of this compactness, the performance of all league teams and their achievement for their goals are affected,\u201d said Esteghlal coach Winfried Schaefer, Esteghlal official website reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe oppose this decision and do not accept it,\u201d he highlighted, adding, \u201ceven we can hold the Super Cup with the support of our common sponsor at another time in Europe because there are thousands of Esteghlal and Persepolis fans outside Iran and they are eager to see their favorite teams\u2019 match closely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iran Football League Organization hasn\u2019t yet officially responded to Esteghlal claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mehr News &#8211; TEHRAN, In a statement published in its official website, Estaghlal FC has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-c20-other-news"],"views":535,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32802","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=32802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32804,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32802\/revisions\/32804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}