Amirhossein Sadeghi, the former captain of Estegalal, in a conversation with journalists, said that Alireza Ildrum, the assistant referee of the match between Estegalal and Estegalal Khuzestan, made "Yasser Asani's reputation go".
He also considered Ildrum's exclusion and the referees' committee officials' apology to Estegalal fans as useless.