{"id":17978,"date":"2014-04-27T11:05:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T18:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=17978"},"modified":"2014-04-27T11:05:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T18:05:43","slug":"afc-inspectors-due-in-iran-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/04\/27\/afc-inspectors-due-in-iran-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC inspectors due in Iran on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>AFC inspectors will come to the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Sunday to start visiting the stadiums in Iran.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran has submitted its bid to host the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The country has previously hosted the editions in 1968 and 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Iran, the UAE, Thailand and Kuwait have expressed their interests in hosting the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p>An eight-member delegation from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) will come to Tehran on Sunday morning to visit the candidate stadiums.<\/p>\n<p>At 15:00pm on Sunday, the delegation will go to the Football Academy in Tehran to inspect the country\u2019s conditions, possibilities and programme in the presence of the Iranian football officials.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, they will also visit Azadi Stadium and inspect the arena\u2019s facilities for one hour.<\/p>\n<p>From Monday, the delegation will be divided in two groups to inspect the candidate cities Isfahan, Mashhad, Tabriz, Shiraz and Kerman simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>The inspection team will take into consideration several factors other than stadium facilities, including training sites, security facilities and transportation infrastructures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, AFC inspectors will come to the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Sunday to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":14021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":8752,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17978","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=17978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}