{"id":33579,"date":"2018-10-01T08:23:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T15:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33579"},"modified":"2018-10-01T08:23:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T15:23:18","slug":"sri-lankan-referee-perera-to-officiate-al-sadd-vs-persepolis-in-doha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/10\/01\/sri-lankan-referee-perera-to-officiate-al-sadd-vs-persepolis-in-doha\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan referee Perera to officiate Al Sadd vs Persepolis in Doha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, <strong>Hettikamkanamge Dilan Perera has been chosen to officiate the first leg of the AFC Champions League semi-final between Al Sadd of Qatar and Iran\u2019s Persepolis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match will be held in Doha\u2019s Jassim bin Hamad Stadium on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Dilan Perera, 40, has been a full international for FIFA since 2004. He refereed some matches in AFC Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>He will be assisted by his two compatriots in this match.<\/p>\n<p>Al Sadd and Persepolis met in the AFC Champions League for the very first time in this year\u2019s group stages.  Both sides won their respective home games.<\/p>\n<p>Al Sadd has reached the AFC Champions League semi-final for the second time after 2011, when it eventually went on to win the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis has reached the semi-final for the second time in its history and the second time in a row after 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; DOHA, Hettikamkanamge Dilan Perera has been chosen to officiate the first leg of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":33580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33579","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":816,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33579","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=33579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33581,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33579\/revisions\/33581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}