{"id":11573,"date":"2010-10-11T13:33:02","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T20:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/10\/11\/va-project-in-ardabil-launched\/"},"modified":"2010-10-11T13:33:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T20:33:02","slug":"va-project-in-ardabil-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/10\/11\/va-project-in-ardabil-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"VA project in Ardabil launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"vision_iran_3x2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/vision_iran_3x2.jpg\" height=\"218\" width=\"328\" \/>AFC &#8211; ARDABIL, <strong>The Vision Iran-Project Ardabil was officially launched on October 7,  2010, paving the way for the improvement of football in the province.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The opening ceremony was held at the Hossein Rezadeh Indoor Hall,  Ardabil City, and was attended by several dignitaries including General  Governor Yousef Akbari, Managing Director of Ardabil TV Broadcasting  Station Abolhassan Sadeghi Jahani, General Manager of Physical Education  Organisation Tofiq Kaboli and President of Ardabil FA Farhang Rahimi.<\/p>\n<p>Akbari  said Ardabil City was happy to receive the visit by AFC Vision Asia  (VA) officials to assist football development in the province.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur aims are to encourage people in Ardabil to be attracted to football and develop football activities toward championships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFootball  brings all stakeholders and people close to each other and bring about  solidarity. We believe, through the VA programme, Ardabil football will  have a brilliant future. We are ready to support this programme to  achieve the main aims.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the speech, AFC officials made  their presentation, followed by the FA\u2019s presentation on the current  situation in Ardabil province.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Kaboli said Ardabil  province is one of the most beautiful provinces and it has a good  position in sport and science in Iran. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cArdabil\u2019s infrastructure  includes appropriate facilities and equipment for football development.  We hope to follow up on the VA programme to improve football in  Ardabil,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rahimi said people in Ardabil are aware that  other provinces under the Vision Asia programme have created a positive  change to their football. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cVisions Isfahan and Fars have  improved football in their provinces. We really believe in the President  of AFC Mohammed Bin Hammam\u2019s comments that Asia has potential to  develop and that the future is Asia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Ardabil province, we  have precious potential like Ali Daei to be introduced to football in  Iran and Asia. We are also interested in following up on the VA  programme and establishing modern structure. This will be achieved if we  work as a team,\u201d aspired Rahimi. <\/p>\n<p>Jahani pledged his station\u2019s cooperation with the FA on the AFC programme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will try our best to assist the FA to succeed in the Vision Asia programme since we believe in team work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArdabil  football has great potential to improve. We hereby announce our  readiness to cooperate with the FA on this great programme,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; ARDABIL, The Vision Iran-Project Ardabil was officially launched on October 7, 2010, paving&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c20-other-news"],"views":2841,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11573","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\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}