{"id":33536,"date":"2018-09-24T16:27:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T23:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33536"},"modified":"2018-09-24T16:28:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T23:28:13","slug":"alireza-faghani-to-referee-tehran-derby-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/09\/24\/alireza-faghani-to-referee-tehran-derby-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Alireza Faghani to referee Tehran derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0 <strong>Alireza Faghani has been chosen to take charge of Thursday\u2019s Tehran derby between Esteghlal and Persepolis at the Azadi Stadium.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Referee Committee of Iran Football Federation announced on Monday that Faghani will officiate the match.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammadreza Mansouri and Rahim Shahin will assist him in the derby.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal and Persepolis have played against each other 87 times, with Esteghlal winning 26 games, Persepolis taking 22 victories, and 39 matches ending in a draw.<\/p>\n<p>Their last match was watched by FIFA president Gianni Infantino and former Dutch international Marco Van Basten at the Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis are second in Iran Professional League (IPL) table while Esteghlal sit 11th.<\/p>\n<p>Faghani officiated 2018 World Cup third-place play-off between Belgium and England.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0 Alireza Faghani has been chosen to take charge of Thursday\u2019s Tehran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl"],"views":645,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33536","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33539,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33536\/revisions\/33539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}