{"id":11558,"date":"2010-10-07T09:54:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T16:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/10\/07\/zanjan-khuzestan-eager-to-embrace-va\/"},"modified":"2010-10-07T09:54:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T16:54:28","slug":"zanjan-khuzestan-eager-to-embrace-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/10\/07\/zanjan-khuzestan-eager-to-embrace-va\/","title":{"rendered":"Zanjan, Khuzestan eager to embrace VA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.the-afc.com\/afc\/logo\/Vision_Asia\/300x200\/vision_iran_3x2.jpg\" \/>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>The football authorities of Zanjan and Khouzestan provinces in Iran are  very positive about their potential for growth and improvement under the  AFC Vision Asia (VA) programme.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Zanjan Football Association President Esfahanian said his side will  complete the required structure and administration of his association  because VA supplements their current programme perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have received good information about the VA programme and we hope to do our tasks completely. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is supplementary to our current programme and we are looking forward to the AFC&#8217;s assessment visit in future,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Esfahanian also felt that it is important to enlist the cooperation of everyone involved in football in the province.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI  feel all provincial stakeholders should be involved. This way, we will  all feel more responsible for the results as well as the key elements of  the VA programme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Khouzestan Football Association General Secretary Yaghoubi was happy for having understood the overall picture of VA.<\/p>\n<p>He  said: \u201cWe did not understand the concept of VA previously but now, we  do. We had thought VA did not work on the administration part but  actually, it is the first key point in the overall programme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yaghoubi was also confident that football in his province will see big changes because of VA. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we implement VA completely, it can help our football development and we will see the big changes in our football activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur  President has said that Vision Asia and education are two key elements  that we should work and focus on since our province has great potential  to go far in football in the country,\u201d enthused Yaghoubi.<\/p>\n<p>A VA  team from AFC was in the two provinces on October 5 to conduct  Pre-Assessment Visits for the implementation of Vision Asia, which is  AFC\u2019s plan to raise the standard of football across the continent at all  levels.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, The football authorities of Zanjan and Khouzestan provinces in Iran are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c20-other-news"],"views":2790,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}