{"id":39852,"date":"2020-07-31T08:18:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T15:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=39852"},"modified":"2020-07-31T08:18:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T15:18:55","slug":"persepolis-facing-possible-six-point-deduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/07\/31\/persepolis-facing-possible-six-point-deduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Persepolis facing possible six-point deduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian football club Persepolis are facing a possible deduction of six points from the 2019-20 table after they failed to pay their former coach Branko Ivankovic.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The football club, who won Iran league title last week with four matches to spare, must pay one million euros until the next week. If not, they will face six-point deduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, the Iranian giants will have to pay the sum of $ 580,000 to ex-coach Gabriel Calderon who parted company with the team in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis have always faced financial problems due to mismanagement over the past years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persepolis were handed from signing players for two transfer windows in 2017 after their striker Mehdi Taremi breached his contract with Turkish football club \u00c7aykur Rizespor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Reds were deducted six points by FIFA in 2008 for non-payment of former employees, however they won the title at last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranian clubs, especially Esteghlal and Persepolis who are owned by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, are not awarded TV broadcast rights and are always facing financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran&#8217;s Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs, Masoud Soltanifar, has recently said two Iranian popular clubs Esteghlal and Persepolis will be ceded to the private sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian football club Persepolis are facing a possible deduction of six&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":39853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,172,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-persepolis","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":543,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39852","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=39852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39854,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39852\/revisions\/39854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}