{"id":37452,"date":"2019-09-07T11:44:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T18:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37452"},"modified":"2019-09-07T11:44:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T18:44:46","slug":"iranian-referee-alireza-faghani-to-move-to-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/09\/07\/iranian-referee-alireza-faghani-to-move-to-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian referee Alireza Faghani to move to Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian international football referee Alireza Faghani is going to migrate to Australia with his family.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 41-year-old famous referee says he has decided to migrate to Australia for his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy children need to continue their studies at the Australian universities. I can also officiate there. We will move to Australia within one month,\u201d Faghani said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter the 2018 World Cup, I wanted to spend more time with my family because I was very busy in the recent years. If I am invited to the international events, I will officiate as an Iranian referee. From now on, I want to devote myself to my family,\u201d Faghani added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Faghani, who started his career in 1994 and became a FIFA referee in 2008, has officiated finals of the 2014 AFC Champions League, 2015 AFC Asian Cup, 2015 FIFA Club World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Football Tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2016 AFC Referee of the Year built on the experience and officiated in the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup semi-final and was also tasked with the 2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers Asian play-off match between Syria and Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Faghani officiated German and Mexico, Serbia and Brazil and France and Argentina matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was also chosen to referee third-place playoff between Belgium and England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian international football referee Alireza Faghani is going to migrate to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":33537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,164,91,93,1,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-ipl","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-uncategorized","category-world-cup"],"views":2160,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37452","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=37452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37453,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37452\/revisions\/37453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}