{"id":11965,"date":"2011-02-23T19:22:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T03:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/02\/23\/nigeria-to-compensate-iran-for-cancelled-game\/"},"modified":"2011-02-23T19:22:45","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T03:22:45","slug":"nigeria-to-compensate-iran-for-cancelled-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/02\/23\/nigeria-to-compensate-iran-for-cancelled-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria to compensate Iran for cancelled game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"iriff\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/iriff.jpg\" height=\"250\" width=\"215\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has agreed to pay $250,000 compensation to Iran due to cancelation of a friendly match between the two countries\u2019 football teams.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The friendly was originally scheduled for November 17 last year in Tehran, but the African powerhouse team pulled out of the match because of its inability to assemble its elite foreign-based players.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian football federation had originally asked for $300,000 as compensation. FIFA supported Iran\u2019s case and found that there was no hard evidence for Nigeria to cancel the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have reached a mutual consensus of paying them $250,000. We don\u2019t have any other option in this case,\u201d said NFF spokesperson Ademola Olajire in defense of the controversial payment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has agreed to pay $250,000 compensation to Iran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3284,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11965","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=11965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}