{"id":35905,"date":"2019-03-30T12:40:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T19:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=35905"},"modified":"2019-03-30T21:57:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T04:57:47","slug":"pierluigi-collina-likens-tehran-derby-to-el-clasico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/03\/30\/pierluigi-collina-likens-tehran-derby-to-el-clasico\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierluigi Collina likens Tehran derby to El Clasico"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The chair of FIFA&#8217;s Referees&#8217; Committee Pierluigi Collina has likened Tehran derby to El Clasico.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Italian legendary official has come to Tehran to attend Tehran derby between Persepolis and Esteghlal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very happy to be here. It\u2019s the first time I\u2019m here and I thank Iran football chief (Mehdi Taj) for inviting me to Iran,\u201d Collina said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI know Tehran derby it\u2019s very exciting and I think it\u2019s like the match between Real Madrid and Barcelona,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI asked Esfandiar Baharmast about this match and I know that it is very important for both teams,\u201d Collina stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI know some of Iranian referees and they are respectable. I have to say Alireza Faghani performed well in the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, The chair of FIFA&#8217;s Referees&#8217; Committee Pierluigi Collina has likened Tehran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":35906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,164,136,172,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persepolis","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":968,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35905","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=35905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35913,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35905\/revisions\/35913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}