{"id":24504,"date":"2021-05-22T09:15:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T04:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=24504"},"modified":"2021-05-22T09:15:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T04:45:29","slug":"iran-football%e2%80%99s-punishments-not-in-accordance-with-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/24504\/iran-football%e2%80%99s-punishments-not-in-accordance-with-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran football\u2019s punishments not in accordance with law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN &#8211; The Disciplinary Committee of the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) announced punishments for three players and one coach for infractions during two weeks of the Iran Professional League (IPL).<\/p>\n<p>The FFIRI\u2019s Disciplinary Committee found Persepolis\u2019 captain Jalal Hosseini and Sepahan defender Ezatollah Pourghaz guilty for violent conduct at the end of the game between Sepahan and Persepolis in Matchday 22 of IPL and suspended them for one match each.<\/p>\n<p>The committee also suspended Persepolis player Farshad Faraji and Esteghlal coach Behzad Gholampour for two matches for their participation in controversy at the end of the match between Esteghlal and Persepolis at Matchday 23.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Persepolis and Sepahan matches in the next season of IPL must be played at a neutral venue, considering the incident in the matches between the two teams during recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal and Persepolis clubs have both filed complaint to the federation\u2019s Appeals Committee for the sanctions issued by the Disciplinary Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Alireza Ghadir, an Iranian Lawyer and an expert in sports law, believes that the DC\u2019s decision about playing in a neutral venue for the Persepolis-Sepahan match is not correct based on the articles of the disciplinary regulations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mentioned match was held in Isfahan, and the turmoil arose in the host team\u2019s venue. So, it is just Sepahan that should be suspended from playing at their home venue for next season&#8217;s match against Persepolis. The Tehran based Persepolis must not be deprived of their hosting right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegarding the suspensions of players, the remarkable point is that the Disciplinary Committee must summon the players who are accused of violent conduct, and their defenses should be heard. It is not the rule, but it always has been and still is the most important principle of a fair trial,\u201d Ghadir said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI again emphasize that according to paragraph two of Article 86 of the disciplinary regulations of the FFIRI, the host club are responsible for maintaining discipline and security inside and outside the stadium before the match, during the match, and after the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, disciplinary decisions and sanctions must be taken against the host club. However, with the current vote of the Disciplinary Committee, Persepolis as the visitors have been banned from hosting the game with Sepahan, which is not based on the regulations,\u201d He concluded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN &#8211; The Disciplinary Committee of the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) announced punishments for three players and one coach for infractions during two weeks of the Iran Professional League (IPL). The FFIRI\u2019s Disciplinary Committee found Persepolis\u2019 captain Jalal Hosseini and Sepahan defender Ezatollah Pourghaz guilty for violent conduct at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}