{"id":19030,"date":"2014-08-13T04:46:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T11:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=19030"},"modified":"2014-08-13T04:46:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T11:46:26","slug":"iran-japan-football-federations-ink-mou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2014\/08\/13\/iran-japan-football-federations-ink-mou\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran, Japan Football Federations Ink MoU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The Iranian and Japanese football federations have signed a memorandum of understanding as part of efforts to boost cooperation between the two Asian powers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The MoU was inked during a special ceremony attended by President of Iran\u2019s Football Federation Ali Kafashian and his Japanese counterpart Daini Kuniya in Tehran on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>After the ceremony, Kafashian presented Kuniya with Iran national football team\u2019s Number 2 jersey and received the Japanese team\u2019s number 10.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Monday, Tashima Kohzo, the vice-president and executive general secretary of the Japan Football Association, met the Iranian top football officials.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese top official was welcomed by Ali Kaffashian, head of Iran Football Federation (IFF), and Secretary General of IFF Mahdi Mohammad Nabi at the headquarters of the Iran Football Federation in Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran showed a good performance in the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Iran and Japan are important pillars of the Asian Football Confederation and we should help the Asian countries make good progress,\u201d Kohzo said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran played well against Argentina in the World Cup and the last minutes\u2019 goal from Lionel Messi didn\u2019t let you to return to the match,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Kohzo also met Iran U-23 football team coach Nelo Vingada and requested him to arrange the friendly matches and preparation camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, The Iranian and Japanese football federations have signed a memorandum of understanding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":4064,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19030","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}