{"id":11867,"date":"2011-01-19T13:50:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T21:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/19\/nigeria-agrees-to-pay-iran-for-botched-friendly\/"},"modified":"2011-01-19T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T21:50:08","slug":"nigeria-agrees-to-pay-iran-for-botched-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/01\/19\/nigeria-agrees-to-pay-iran-for-botched-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria agrees to pay Iran for botched friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div id=\"vozme5962\">\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.farsnews.com\/Media\/8904\/Images\/jpg\/A0871\/A0871497.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/media.farsnews.com\/Media\/8904\/Images\/jpg\/A0871\/A0871497.jpg\" height=\"251\" width=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Vanguardngr  &#8211; <strong>The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) have reached an agreement to  compensate Iran for a last-minute withdrawal from a friendly in  November.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NFF general secretary Musa Amadu simply told  MTNFootball.com \u201cWe are still discussing with them\u201d, but another top  official disclosed that the NFF have now agreed to pay for pulling out  of the friendly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA figure has been agreed for us to pay Iran after we pulled out of that friendly,\u201d the official told MTNFootball.com.<br \/>\u201cWhat is holding the payment is an approval by the NFF board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iran reportedly demanded for a compensation of $300,000 from Nigeria for the no-show.<\/p>\n<p>Officials  said the pay-off would have been a lot more had Iran routed their  demand for compensation through world football governing body FIFA.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria opted out of a November 17 friendly against Iran in Tehran citing the non-availability of key players for the game.<br \/>However,  the decision to pull out for the match may not be unconnected with a  diplomatic row involving the governments of both countries in the wake  of an illegal shipment of arms from Iran that was impounded in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,  Nigeria\u2019s Super Falcons have reached an agreement to take on Finland  and Hungary in warm-up matches prior to the FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup in  Germany in June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have reached an agreement to play Finland in  May and Hungary in March ahead of the World Cup,\u201d said Falcons coach,  Uche Eucharia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, we are yet to agree on dates for these matches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Uche also said discussions are also ongoing for a tune_up match against Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, we will play several top quality friendlies before the World Cup,\u201d said the Falcons handler.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria  are drawn against hosts and defending champions Germany, France and  Canada in a first round group at the 2011 World Cup, which rolls out in  June.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons best World Cup performance was at the 1999 finals in the United States, where they reached the last eight.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanguardngr &#8211; The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) have reached an agreement to compensate Iran for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c20-other-news"],"views":5934,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11867","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=11867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}