{"id":11439,"date":"2010-08-22T15:37:22","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T22:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/08\/22\/japan-call-up-europe-based-players\/"},"modified":"2010-08-22T15:37:22","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T22:37:22","slug":"japan-call-up-europe-based-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/08\/22\/japan-call-up-europe-based-players\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA president invited to Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livederby.com\/img_mari\/1264368912-sepp_blatter.jpg\" height=\"259\" width=\"357\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>FIFA president Sepp Blatter has been invited to Iran to assess the development of women\u2019s football in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blatter watched Iran and Turkey\u2019s girls soccer match in the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p> Iran&#8217;s participation in the inaugural event was in doubt after FIFA refused them permission to wear a uniform in line with the nation\u2019s Islamic dress code. But following personal intervention by Blatter, the world governing body finally approved an altered kit that swapped the proposed headscarf for a cap that covers the hair, but not the neck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe invited Blatter to come to Iran to assess the development of Iranian women in the sport. Iran showed a good performance in Singapore in their first experience,\u201d secretary general of Iran\u2019s National Olympic committee said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Iranian women\u2019s football teams just can compete in the international competitions observing the Islamic dress code. We wanted Mr. Blatter to allow them to participate in the other tournaments wearing hijab,\u201d\u00a0 Bahram Afsharzadeh added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, FIFA president Sepp Blatter has been invited to Iran to assess the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3020,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11439","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=11439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}