{"id":14433,"date":"2013-05-03T13:03:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T20:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=14433"},"modified":"2013-05-03T13:03:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T20:03:33","slug":"shaikh-salman-elected-afc-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/05\/03\/shaikh-salman-elected-afc-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaikh Salman elected AFC President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa has been elected as the new AFC President following Thursday\u2019s election at the AFC Extraordinary Congress.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Salman received 33 of the 46 votes to sweep to victory ahead of Thailand\u2019s Worawi Makudi (7 votes) and Yousuf Al Serkal of the UAE (6 votes).<\/p>\n<p>There were initially four candidates for the most important position in the administration of Asian football but this number was reduced to three following the withdrawal of Saudi Arabia\u2019s Dr. Hafez Ibrahim Al Medlej on the eve of the Extraordinary Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Shaikh Salman\u2019s term in office will run for two year\u2019s until the next AFC Congress in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa has been elected as the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":14021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news"],"views":3850,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14433","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=14433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}