{"id":16311,"date":"2013-11-08T12:07:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T20:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=16311"},"modified":"2013-11-08T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T20:07:09","slug":"fifa-chief-green-lights-iranian-cheetah-logo-for-iran-team-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2013\/11\/08\/fifa-chief-green-lights-iranian-cheetah-logo-for-iran-team-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA chief green-lights Iranian cheetah logo for Iran team jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>World football governing body (FIFA) chief Sepp Blatter said on Thursday that he will support a plan to fight extinction of Iranian cheetah.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wrapping up a two-day visit to Tehran, Blatter promised to support a national plan aimed at fighting extinction of Iranian cheetah in form of designing a logo to depict the image of the cheetah on national football team\u2019s jersey in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>On the issue of women players being allowed to wear the Islamic headscarf, Blatter said that the final decision on a trial, under way since July last year, would be taken at a FIFA board meeting in Zurich on February 28.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are in a period of try how it works out,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trial was launched last year at the request of the Asian Football Confederation. Iran was among its supporters,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding a question about what should Iran do to gain a FIFA seat and why Ali Daei missed the position in the body, Blatter said that another representative from Iran will join one of the FIFA committees in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran had already one seat in FIFA. Mr. Kafashian who is now the head of the Football Federation was a member of Futsal Committee and he continues to serve in the body. Ali Daei was also a member of FIFA&#8217;s Technical Committee, but due to the structural changes of the committees taking place at the end of each year, he lost his seat,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, after this trip to your country, another representative from Iran will certainly become a member of a FIFA committee in the near future\u201d, Blatter said<\/p>\n<p>Blatter also urged Iranian authorities to lift the ban on women\u2019s presence in stadiums as spectators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, World football governing body (FIFA) chief Sepp Blatter said on Thursday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":13991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":4173,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16311","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=16311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}