{"id":11206,"date":"2010-05-01T19:33:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T02:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/05\/01\/fifa-lifts-ban-on-iran-girls-football-team\/"},"modified":"2010-05-01T19:33:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T02:33:47","slug":"fifa-lifts-ban-on-iran-girls-football-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/05\/01\/fifa-lifts-ban-on-iran-girls-football-team\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA lifts ban on Iran girls&#8217; football team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mehrnews.com\/mehr_media\/image\/2007\/09\/291791_orig.jpg\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>FIFA lifted its suspension of Iran&#8217;s girls&#8217; soccer team and the players are now permitted to participate in the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games while observing Islamic dress code.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We sent FIFA a sample of our new Islamic dress and fortunately they accepted it. They announced that there was no objection if the players covered their hair with hats&#8221;, Abbas Torabian director of the International Relations Committee of Iran Football Federation said.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke had initially rejected the Iranian Olympic panel&#8217;s request regarding hijab. He had said the FIFA executive committee had &#8220;no choice but to take the decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now that the matter has been resolved Iran will participate in a six-nation tournament for girls in Singapore from August 12 to 25. About 3,600 athletes, ages 14 to 18, compete in 26 sports.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\" id=\"tblNews\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr id=\"trNewsLead\">\n<td colspan=\"2\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"trNewsBody\">\n<td colspan=\"2\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, FIFA lifted its suspension of Iran&#8217;s girls&#8217; soccer team and the players&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":5402,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11206","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\/22615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}