{"id":35009,"date":"2019-01-14T09:51:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T17:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35009"},"modified":"2019-01-14T09:51:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T17:51:34","slug":"ravshan-irmatov-to-take-charge-of-iran-iraq-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/14\/ravshan-irmatov-to-take-charge-of-iran-iraq-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravshan Irmatov to take charge of Iran, Iraq match"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DUBAI, <strong>Uzbek referee Ravshan Irmatov will officiate the match between Iran and Iraq in Group D of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match has been scheduled for Wednesday at the Al-Maktoum Stadium in Dubai, the UAE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An international official since 2003, the 42-year-old ref has officiated in three World Cups in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was also involved in the London 2012 Olympics, the FIFA Club World Cup on three occasions and the Confederations Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Irmatov has been named the Best Referee in Asia in four consecutive years (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Already-qualified Iran and Iraq, both on six points, will play for the chance to be group winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran lost to Iraqi team in the 2015 AFC Asian Cup quarterfinals in penalty shootout and look to avenge the loss after four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; DUBAI, Uzbek referee Ravshan Irmatov will officiate the match between Iran and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35009","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":742,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35009","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=35009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35011,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35009\/revisions\/35011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}