{"id":12969,"date":"2012-05-25T05:23:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T12:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/05\/25\/fifa-expresses-concern-over-lebanon-security\/"},"modified":"2012-05-25T05:23:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T12:23:48","slug":"fifa-expresses-concern-over-lebanon-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/05\/25\/fifa-expresses-concern-over-lebanon-security\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA expresses concern over Lebanon security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"fifa_logo-big\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fifa_logo-big.jpg\" height=\"259\" width=\"320\" \/>GOAL &#8211; BEIRUT, <strong>Concerns over safety may lead to Lebanon&#8217;s World Cup qualifiers being moved to neutral venues after the country&#8217;s Football Association received a letter from Fifa asking for clarification regarding its security procedures.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Fifa is said to be concerned with the state of public safety in the nation following the recent spread of violence related to continuing discontent in neighbouring Syria.<\/p>\n<p>After receipt of the letter, Lebanon Football Association (LFA) president Hashem Haidar met with Youth and Sports minister Faisal Karami as well as other government officials in order to prepare a response to Fifa outlining the safety and security measures that will be in place for the two matches in June.<\/p>\n<p>Should Sports City Stadium be declared unsafe for Lebanon&#8217;s matches against Qatar on June 3 and Uzbekistan on June 8, the fixtures could instead be held in Jordan, Qatar, or the UAE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOAL &#8211; BEIRUT, Concerns over safety may lead to Lebanon&#8217;s World Cup qualifiers being moved&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":10959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions"],"views":3783,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12969","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=12969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}