{"id":35668,"date":"2019-03-05T18:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T02:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35668"},"modified":"2019-03-05T18:00:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T02:00:45","slug":"collina-invited-to-attend-tehran-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/03\/05\/collina-invited-to-attend-tehran-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Collina invited to attend Tehran derby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZURICH, <strong>Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) president Mehdi Taj has invited the chairman of FIFA&#8217;s Referees Committee, Pierluigi Collina, to come to Iran to attend Tehran derby between Esteghlal and Persepolis in the Iranian league.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match has been scheduled to take place in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium on March 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video assistant referee (VAR) will be used for the first time in Tehran derby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Collina said VAR technology was successful at the 2018 World Cup in Russia and is sure it is here to stay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;VAR was successful in Russia and I believe that technological tools are very important in football. I think Alireza Faghani as a real expert can help the Iranian football federation for this technology,&#8221; Collina told Taj.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Last year, FIFA President Gianni Infantino attended the match in Tehran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; ZURICH, Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) president Mehdi Taj has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,173,84,92,164,136,172,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persepolis","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":635,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35668","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=35668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35670,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35668\/revisions\/35670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}