{"id":11217,"date":"2010-05-05T05:45:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T12:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/05\/05\/iran-renews-bid-to-host-futsal-wc\/"},"modified":"2010-05-05T05:45:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T12:45:15","slug":"iran-renews-bid-to-host-futsal-wc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/05\/05\/iran-renews-bid-to-host-futsal-wc\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran renews bid to host Futsal WC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Futsal-Team Melli\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cinetmag.com\/Shahvand\/photo\/iran_futsal.jpg\" height=\"260\" width=\"398\" \/>PTV &#8211; <strong>Iran has renewed its bid for hosting the 2012 Futsal World Cup,  after FIFA initially replaced Iran with Thailand, which is deep in  political unrest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Iran&#8217;s developing position has provided the  opportunity for the country to host the 2012 Futsal World Cup,&#8221; the  President of the Iranian Futsal Committee Abbas Torabian was quoted by  IRINN as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Iran can excel as a good host to the Futsal  World Cup. FIFA admits that Iran has the chance to win the bid,&#8221; he  added.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA said it had ruled out Iran because it did not receive  the documents needed from the Iranian football federation, Torabian  said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is still questionable how Thailand, the country that  had withdrawn its bid, was chosen as the host,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Torabian  stressed that Iran was ready to present any documents needed to be  allowed to host the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The recent political turmoil in  Thailand has raised concerns over the country&#8217;s preparedness to host the  Futsal World Cup.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; Iran has renewed its bid for hosting the 2012 Futsal World Cup, after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c15-futsal"],"views":6398,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11217","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}