{"id":12255,"date":"2011-06-27T17:08:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T00:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/06\/27\/iran-football-body-apologizes-to-home-fans\/"},"modified":"2011-06-27T17:08:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T00:08:35","slug":"iran-football-body-apologizes-to-home-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2011\/06\/27\/iran-football-body-apologizes-to-home-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran football body apologizes to home fans"},"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=\"199\" width=\"292\" \/>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Head of Iran Football Federation (IFF) Ali Kaffashian apologized to the Iran fans over early exit from the Olympic race. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had tried to end Iran\u2019s 36-year-old Olympic drought but failed to do that. I know the Iranian football fans are disappointed, but this is not the first time that we cannot qualify for the Games,\u201d Kaffashian said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, Iran\u2019s football structure has problems, so, we also failed to advance to the World Cup, but we have a huge potential,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Kaffashian fired three top football officials for dereliction of duty as the national squad suffered exit from 2012 London Olympics qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Fereydoon Moeini, the head of the national team management committee, Asghar Hajiloo, supervisor of Iran\u2019s Olympic team, and Davoud Parhizgar, member of staff have been sacked over their negligence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran Football Executive Committee decided to sack those who are guilty and it\u2019s not my decision; I apologize to all Iranian people; we have a lot of problems and we must work hard to find solutions,\u201d Kaffashian concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNA &#8211; TEHRAN, Head of Iran Football Federation (IFF) Ali Kaffashian apologized to the Iran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":11783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":4767,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12255","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=12255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12255\/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=12255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}