{"id":11136,"date":"2010-04-09T09:09:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T16:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/04\/09\/iran-football-federations-vp-resigns\/"},"modified":"2010-04-09T09:09:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T16:09:21","slug":"iran-football-federations-vp-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/04\/09\/iran-football-federations-vp-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran football federation&#8217;s VP resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.islamtimes.org\/images\/docs\/000007\/n00007691-s.jpg\" \/>PTV &#8211; TEHRAN, <span id=\"ctl00_body_spnBody\"><strong>The Vice-President of the Football  Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) Mehdi Taj, has  resigned from his post, two days after the manager of Iran&#8217;s Under-23  football team quit his job. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s football governing body accepted Taj&#8217;s resignation,  which came on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the FFIRI announced it had failed to reach agreement on  the renewal of contract of Iran&#8217;s U-23s manager Gholam-Hossein  Peyrovani.  His contract ended in March. <\/p>\n<p>Taj, along with other FFIRI officials, came under growing criticism  after Iran&#8217;s national football team failed to reach the 2010 World Cup. <\/p>\n<p>He further denied that his resignation was due to disagreements with  FFIRI President Ali Kafashian. <\/p>\n<p>After repeated demotions in FIFA world ranking, Iran has moved up  four spots to stand in the 63rd place. <br \/> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; TEHRAN, The Vice-President of the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3553,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}