{"id":34595,"date":"2018-12-21T13:36:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T21:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34595"},"modified":"2018-12-21T13:36:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T21:36:33","slug":"iran-to-use-var-in-domestic-league-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/12\/21\/iran-to-use-var-in-domestic-league-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to use VAR in domestic league: Official"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN,  <strong>Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) President Mehdi Taj has said the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) will be used in the country\u2019s league.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision has been made after the refereeing mistakes increased in Iran Professional League (IPL) over the past few months, Taj said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt will be initially tested in four stadiums, namely Azadi Stadium in Tehran, Isfahan\u2019s Naghshe Jahan, Foolad Arena in Ahvaz and Emam Reza in Mashhad,\u201d he said. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Video review can help referees overturn clear errors in game-changing situations. This means incidents involving goals scored, the award of penalty kicks, red cards, and cases of referees showing cards to the wrong player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VAR was used for the first time to reverse a decision in a 2018 World Cup match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Video review is already used in Serie A, Ligue 1, La Liga and the Bundesliga and will be in place for the 2019-20 Premier League season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) President Mehdi Taj has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,165,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34595","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-persian-gulf-pro-league","category-uncategorized"],"views":776,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34595","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=34595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34597,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34595\/revisions\/34597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}