{"id":39612,"date":"2020-07-04T08:24:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T15:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=39612"},"modified":"2020-07-04T08:24:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T15:24:17","slug":"ipl-in-crisis-once-again-as-six-members-of-esteghlal-test-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/07\/04\/ipl-in-crisis-once-again-as-six-members-of-esteghlal-test-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL in crisis once again as six members of Esteghlal test positive for Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The coronavirus has once again plunged the Iranian football into crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Esteghlal team, who were supposed to go to Jam, Bushehr Province for the game against Pars Jounubi, refused to travel to the southern city because of concerns about the Covid-19 pandemic, despite the fact that all the members of the team were at the Tehran&#8217;s Mehrabad Airport to fly to Jam on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Ahmad Sa\u2019adatmand, Esteghlal general manager, said that they have bought flight tickets for Sunday morning and were waiting to receive the full report of the players\u2019 Covid-19 test results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The club announced on Saturday that several players of the team as well as some club\u2019s staff have tested positive for coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iran Football League Organization in a statement responded that Esteghlal must participate in the match against Pars Jounubi as it is scheduled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, the League Organization issued a threatening statement stressing that the players and clubs\u2019 members who pretend to be infected with the coronavirus will face legal action and their activities will be suspended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe football medical department will send the related players and staff to the trusted labs and medical centers to perform additional tests intended to diagnose the Covid-19, and in case of proving they have violated the rules, they will be banned from registering new contracts and will be suspended from all football-related affairs,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, Foolad Khuzestan also announced that six players of the side have tested positive for coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, The coronavirus has once again plunged the Iranian football into crisis&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":39613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,84,164,136,91,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esteghlal","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-c20-other-news","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":666,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39612","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=39612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39614,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39612\/revisions\/39614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}