{"id":33879,"date":"2018-10-27T13:27:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T20:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=33879"},"modified":"2018-10-27T13:27:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T20:27:27","slug":"ffiri-president-taj-hails-persepolis-achievement-in-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/10\/27\/ffiri-president-taj-hails-persepolis-achievement-in-acl\/","title":{"rendered":"FFIRI President Taj hails Persepolis\u2019 achievement in ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) President Mehdi Taj has hailed Persepolis reaching the 2018 AFC Champions League final as a triumph for Iranian football after the team\u2019s 2-1 aggregate victory over Qatar&#8217;s Al Sadd.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Persepolis advanced to the final for the first time following a 1-1 draw in its semi-final second leg against Qatar\u2019s Al Sadd in Tehran, which gave the team a 2-1 aggregate win.<\/p>\n<p>The FFIRI President visited the Persepolis dressing room after the match and congratulated the players for their achievement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe that all the Iranian people are happy because the team reached the final. I believe that Iran reached the Champions League final, not just Persepolis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that this happiness will continue and the team will go for the championship. Now, 80 million Iranians are happy, and that&#8217;s why I went to the dressing room and thanked the players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Persepolis will face Kashima Antlers, who edged Suwon Bluewings 6-5 on aggregate, in the two-legged final on November 3 and 10, with the second leg to be played at the Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) President Mehdi Taj has hailed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":33880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,91,86,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33879","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","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-uncategorized"],"views":433,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33879","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=33879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33881,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33879\/revisions\/33881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}