{"id":35446,"date":"2019-02-11T16:27:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T00:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35446"},"modified":"2019-02-11T16:27:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T00:27:06","slug":"ffiris-promise-to-implement-var-in-the-ipl-yet-to-take-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/02\/11\/ffiris-promise-to-implement-var-in-the-ipl-yet-to-take-place\/","title":{"rendered":"FFIRI&#8217;s promise to implement VAR in the IPL yet to take place"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) reneged on its promise to use Video Assistant Referee (VAR) in the country\u2019s league.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FFIRI President Mehdi Taj had said that VAR would be used in the second half of the Iran Professional League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision was made after the refereeing mistakes increased in the league.<\/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 Taj said in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, after two weeks the VAR has not been tested in the league and the teams have lashed out at a series of decisions that have gone against them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, the referees of Foolad and Persepolis match and Nassaji and Tractor Sazi game made controversial decisions, in which the favorites Persepolis and Tractor Sazi published statement shortly after the match. &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) reneged on its promise&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":622,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35446","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=35446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35449,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35446\/revisions\/35449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}