{"id":44892,"date":"2022-01-31T19:29:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T03:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=44892"},"modified":"2022-01-31T19:29:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T03:29:40","slug":"2022-wcq-ahmed-al-kaf-selected-to-officiate-iran-v-uae%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2022\/01\/31\/2022-wcq-ahmed-al-kaf-selected-to-officiate-iran-v-uae%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 WCQ: Ahmed Al-Kaf selected to officiate Iran v UAE\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Ahmed Abu Bakar Said Al-Kaf was chosen as referee of the Iran and UAE match in the 2022 World Cup qualifier.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 39-year-old Omani referee will be assisted by his countrymen Rashid al Ghaithi and Abu Bakar Salim Mahad Al Amri in this match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al-Kaf has been a full international for FIFA since 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match is scheduled to be held on Tuesday in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dragan Skocic\u2019s team booked their place in Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium on Thursday as the first Asian team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UAE have a chance to finish the Group A as the third-placed team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two third-placed teams will play a single match and the winner advance to the inter-confederation play-offs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Ahmed Abu Bakar Said Al-Kaf was chosen as referee of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":44893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44892","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-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1142,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44892","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=44892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44894,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44892\/revisions\/44894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}