{"id":11933,"date":"2011-02-07T17:48:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T01:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/02\/07\/iff-president-voices-iran-football-woes\/"},"modified":"2011-02-07T17:48:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T01:48:21","slug":"iff-president-voices-iran-football-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/02\/07\/iff-president-voices-iran-football-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"IFF president voices Iran football woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"kafashian-blue\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/kafashian-blue.jpg\" height=\"288\" width=\"422\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran Football Federation (IFF) president Ali Kaffashian claims he is concerned about the future of football in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran failed to put an end to the 35-year title drought in the AFC Asian Cup in the competition held in Qatar in January.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCountries like Japan and South Korea have invested heavily in football during the past years. South Korea, for instance, spends about $160 million each year. This is 20 times more than what we spend on our football,\u201d Kaffashian said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, we don\u2019t have quality players in Iran. According to world standards, a football player must run more than 12 kilometers during a football match. Iranian players run under 10 kilometers,\u201d the IFF president added.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cMany Asian countries cover 65 to 70 percent of their expenses by selling broadcasting rights, but we earn just 5 percent. Of course, we are working on a solution to receive our true broadcasting rights,\u201d Kaffashian stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran Football Federation (IFF) president Ali Kaffashian claims he is concerned about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3151,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933","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=11933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}