{"id":19724,"date":"2014-12-03T01:48:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T09:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19724"},"modified":"2014-12-03T01:48:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T09:48:01","slug":"blocked-fifa-funds-could-now-flow-to-irans-national-soccer-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/12\/03\/blocked-fifa-funds-could-now-flow-to-irans-national-soccer-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Blocked FIFA Funds Could Now Flow To Iran\u2019s National Soccer Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Radio Zamaneh &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The head of Iran\u2019s Football Federation reports that Sepp Blatter, the head of the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA), has announced that some of Iran\u2019s money for football activities, which has been blocked due to the International sanctions, will now be released.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ali Kafashian told reporters, after his return from the meeting of the Asian Football Confederation in the Philippines marking its 60th anniversary, that he had met on the sidelines of the event with Sepp Blatter and informed him that Iran\u2019s Football Federation finds it difficult to support the national football team without access to FIFA funding.<\/p>\n<p>Blatter has reportedly promised to release some of the blocked funding.<\/p>\n<p>Iran is eligible for $7 million to $8 million in FIFA funds, which are allotted to teams that reach the World Cup. The funding is aimed at helping prepare the team for the games.<\/p>\n<p>Sanctions on Iran\u2019s financial sector have significantly restricted Iran\u2019s ability to be a part of any international transaction.<\/p>\n<p>The interim deal reached in November 2013 between Iran and the world powers entails some easing of sanctions, which has allowed the release of some of Iran\u2019s frozen assets in foreign banks and let some of Iran\u2019s debtors make payments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio Zamaneh &#8211; TEHRAN, The head of Iran\u2019s Football Federation reports that Sepp Blatter, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":6076,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19724","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}