{"id":34945,"date":"2019-01-10T14:06:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T22:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34945"},"modified":"2019-01-10T14:06:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T22:06:46","slug":"singaporean-ref-muhammad-taqi-to-officiate-iran-v-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/10\/singaporean-ref-muhammad-taqi-to-officiate-iran-v-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Singaporean ref Muhammad Taqi to officiate Iran v Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ABU DHABI, <strong>Muhammad Taqi Aljaafari Bin Jahari has been chosen to officiate the match between Iran national football team and Vietnam in Group D of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match has been scheduled to take place at the Al Nahyan Stadium in Abu Dhabi, the UAE on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Singaporean Muhammad Taqi Aljaafari has been a FIFA listed referee since 2012 and has also refereed a number of AFC Champions League matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Taqi Aljaafari has also refereed matches in the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran sit top of the table after beating Yemen 5-0 in their opener on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iraq are second thanks to a 3-2 late win over Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli last won the Cup in 1976 and the Persians are looking forward to end their 43-year trophy drought in the UAE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2019 AFC Asian Cup is being held in the UAE from Jan. 5 to Feb. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ABU DHABI, Muhammad Taqi Aljaafari Bin Jahari has been chosen to officiate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34945","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-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":708,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34945","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=34945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34947,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34945\/revisions\/34947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}