{"id":37556,"date":"2019-09-21T19:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T02:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37556"},"modified":"2019-09-21T19:00:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T02:00:49","slug":"alireza-faghani-to-join-a-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/09\/21\/alireza-faghani-to-join-a-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Alireza Faghani to join A-League"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; SYDNEY, <strong>The Football Federation Australia (FFA) confirmed that one of the top referees in the world, Alireza Faghani, will become a full-time referee in the A-League 2019\/20 Season.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Faghani recently made the decision to migrate to Australia for family reasons and as a result FFA offered him a contract to officiate in the A-League<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Faghani was excited about the new challenge of refereeing in the A-League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOnce my family made the decision to move to Australia, it was fantastic that the opportunity to referee in the Hyundai A-League came about,\u201d said Faghani.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was a very big decision to leave our home country, but I am extremely thankful that I am still able to referee professionally in one of the top domestic leagues in Asia and also continue my career as an international match official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have refereed many times in Australia and with Australian clubs so I am very familiar with the players and venues. My family and I are very much looking forward to moving to Australia and starting the next chapter of our lives,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; SYDNEY, The Football Federation Australia (FFA) confirmed that one of the top referees&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":37557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,164,136,89,87,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":532,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37556","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=37556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37558,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37556\/revisions\/37558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}