{"id":24192,"date":"2016-02-02T17:49:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T01:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24192"},"modified":"2016-02-02T17:49:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T01:49:09","slug":"iranian-clubs-could-withdraw-from-afc-champions-league-due-to-venue-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/02\/02\/iranian-clubs-could-withdraw-from-afc-champions-league-due-to-venue-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian clubs could withdraw from AFC Champions League due to venue changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran Football Federation Vice President Mehdi Taj said the Iranian teams will withdraw from AFC Champions League if the confederation change the venues of Iran and Saudi Arabian teams matches.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following the weeks-long diplomatic dispute between Iran and Saudi Arabia, AFC Competitions Committee decided to amend the schedule for the 2016 AFC Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>The AFC says it set a March 15 deadline for &#8220;a return to normal relations&#8221; otherwise all matches between teams from the countries will be played at neutral venues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we\u2019ve already said, Iran is a safe country and we have no problem to host the ACL matches,\u201d Taj said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the confederation is making a dangerous decision. If AFC change the venues, the Iranian teams will pull out of the competition,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t accept to play in neutral venues and believe that it\u2019s a political decision to change the venues,\u201d Taj said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran Football Federation Vice President Mehdi Taj said the Iranian teams will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":24193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":3051,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24192","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}