{"id":34372,"date":"2018-12-05T18:40:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T02:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34372"},"modified":"2018-12-05T18:40:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T02:40:28","slug":"iranian-trio-appointed-for-2019-afc-asian-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/12\/05\/iranian-trio-appointed-for-2019-afc-asian-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian trio appointed for 2019 AFC Asian Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Three Iranian officials have been appointed to the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019, which is scheduled to kick-off in one month\u2019s time on January 5, 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alireza Faghani and assistant referees Reza Sokhandan and Mohammadreza Mansouri, who refereed England&#8217;s World Cup third-place play-off against Belgium, have been assigned to officiate in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>With the expansion of Asia\u2019s most prestigious tournament from 16 to 24 teams, a record 60 match officials \u2013 comprising 30 referees and assistant referees each \u2013 have been appointed to the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The largest-ever contingent, which will also be supported by four reserve officials, will see a diverse range of nationalities, with 19 Member Associations represented across the five AFC zones.<\/p>\n<p>The Continent\u2019s best referees and assistant referees were selected based on their skill, technical knowledge, management competence and physical fitness.<\/p>\n<p> They will be expected to perform various roles including Additional Assistant Referees, Reserve Assistant Referees as well as Video Assistant Referees (VAR), which will come into force from the quarter-final stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Three Iranian officials have been appointed to the AFC Asian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":392,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34372","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=34372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34373,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34372\/revisions\/34373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}