{"id":34849,"date":"2019-01-05T11:47:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T19:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34849"},"modified":"2019-01-05T11:47:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T19:47:58","slug":"asian-cup-japanese-ref-sato-selected-to-officiate-iran-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/05\/asian-cup-japanese-ref-sato-selected-to-officiate-iran-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Cup: Japanese ref  Sato selected to officiate Iran opener"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ABU DHABI, <strong>Japanese international referee Ryuji Sato has been chosen to officiate Iran\u2019s opening match in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli will meet Yemen in Group D of the competition on Monday at the Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sato has refereed many matches in the AFC Champions League and FIFA World Cup qualifiers at the international level. He is also a referee in J. League Division 1 in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2019 AFC Asian Cup will be held in the UAE from Jan. 5 to Feb. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ABU DHABI, Japanese international referee Ryuji Sato has been chosen to officiate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,92,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-asian-cup","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":618,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34849","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=34849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34851,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34849\/revisions\/34851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}