{"id":37920,"date":"2019-11-09T17:16:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T01:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37920"},"modified":"2019-11-09T17:16:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T01:16:20","slug":"dilan-perera-to-officiate-iraq-vs-iran-world-cup-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/11\/09\/dilan-perera-to-officiate-iraq-vs-iran-world-cup-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilan Perera to officiate Iraq vs Iran World Cup Qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; AMMAN, <strong>Hettikamkanamge Dilan Perera from Sri Lanka will officiate the match between Iraq and Iran in a 2022 World Cup qualifier.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jordan\u2019s referee Adham Makhadmeh had been originally chosen to officiate the match but the Iranian football federation protested the Asian Football Confederation\u2019s decision since he is an Arab referee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iraq and Iran match will be held at the Amman International Stadium in Amman, Jordan on November 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hettikamkanamge Dilan Perera, 41, is a Sri Lankan professional football referee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has been a full international for FIFA since 2004. Perera has refereed some matches in AFC Champions League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; AMMAN, Hettikamkanamge Dilan Perera from Sri Lanka will officiate the match between Iraq&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":37921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,93,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37920","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-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1058,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37920","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=37920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37922,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37920\/revisions\/37922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}