{"id":35224,"date":"2019-01-26T13:44:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T21:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35224"},"modified":"2019-01-26T13:44:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T21:44:35","slug":"australian-ref-chris-beath-appointed-for-iran-vs-japan-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/01\/26\/australian-ref-chris-beath-appointed-for-iran-vs-japan-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian ref Chris Beath appointed for Iran vs Japan match"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; AL AIN, <strong>Australian referee Christopher James Beath will referee Iran\u2019s clash with Japan in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup semifinals, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Referees Committee confirmed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran and Japan match will be Beath\u2019s third contest in the UAE as the 34-year-old referee has officiated Bahrain vs Thailand and Lebanon vs North Korea matches so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli will meet Japan at the Hazza bin Zayed Stadium in Al Ain on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beath was added to the FIFA International Referees List in 2011, serving as a referee for matches including the Kirin Challenge Cup contest between Japan and Iceland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2015, Beath was involved in an exchange program where he refereed in the J-League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 4 April 2017, Chris Beath was appointed as one of the inaugural Video assistant referee (VAR&#8217;s) in the Hyundai A-League, the first top-tier football league in the world to implement the technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beath also officiated the opening match of the 2018 AFC U23 Championship held in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, C\u00e9sar Arturo Ramos Palazuelos has been chosen to officiate the match between the UAE and Qatar in another semifinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; AL AIN, Australian referee Christopher James Beath will referee Iran\u2019s clash with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,175,84,92,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35224","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":1252,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35224","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=35224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35226,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35224\/revisions\/35226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}