{"id":40982,"date":"2020-11-20T20:07:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T04:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40982"},"modified":"2020-11-20T20:07:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T04:07:09","slug":"iranian-referees-nominated-to-officiate-at-2023-fifa-womens-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/11\/20\/iranian-referees-nominated-to-officiate-at-2023-fifa-womens-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian referees nominated to officiate at 2023 FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iranian referees Mahsa Ghorbani and Ensieh Khabbaz Mafinejad have been shortlisted to officiate at the 2023 FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ghorbani is a FIFA international referee since 2017, while Khabbaz is an assistant referee for 11 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FIFA has nominated 750 referees and assistants for the event and will finally choose 56 referees and 100 assistants from the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The competition is the 9th edition of the FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for women&#8217;s national football teams organized by FIFA. The tournament will be jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand, during a reserved period in the FIFA Women&#8217;s International Match Calendar between 10 July and 20 August 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2023 tournament will see the Women&#8217;s World Cup expanded from 24 to 32 teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States are the defending champions going into the competition, having won the previous two tournaments in 2015 and 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iranian referees Mahsa Ghorbani and Ensieh Khabbaz Mafinejad have been shortlisted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,93,155,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c22-players-spotlight","category-womens","category-world-cup"],"views":500,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40982","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=40982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40984,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40982\/revisions\/40984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}