The Disciplinary Committee of the Football Federation suspended Yaser Asani as well as Alireza Ildrum to close the case of the controversial match between Esteghlal Khuzestan and Esteghlal Tehran. With Ildrum’s suspension, it became clear that certain words were really said by him to Yasir Asani, and this incident became a subject for Ismail Safiri, the head of the referees’ committee of the Football Federation, to talk about it tonight in the Football Nights program.
You can read the summary of Ismail Safiri’s words in this program below:
- Alireza Ildrum is one of the well-known figures of our refereeing community in the assistant referees department, but sometimes people give authority from the floor. Friends in the disciplinary committee, after examining the aspects of the matter, came to the conclusion that inappropriate words were exchanged, and for this reason, Ildrum was ordered to be banned. I hope we won’t see this happening again in the future.
- The audio system in the assistant referee’s room records all the conversations of the referees, and this must have happened in the match between Esteghlal Khuzestan and Esteghlal Tehran, that’s why it didn’t take long from the time of this incident to the day when the verdict was issued.
- Sometimes things happen that have not been thought about in advance, and the incident between Mr. Ildrum and Yaser Asani was one of those exceptional cases.
- The audio file of the exchanged sentences between Ildrum and Yasir Asani is available to the disciplinary committee and they can comment on who started using the inappropriate words first.
- So far, I am 70% satisfied with the performance of referees and assistant referees.
- The effective mistakes of the referee that have led to the change of the result of the game during the 12 weeks of the Premier League competitions, are very few and I can say that they were around two percent.
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