{"id":22575,"date":"2015-09-07T09:03:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T16:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=22575"},"modified":"2015-09-07T09:03:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T16:03:50","slug":"iran-iraq-eye-closer-sports-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/09\/07\/iran-iraq-eye-closer-sports-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran, Iraq Eye Closer Sports Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran\u2019s Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Mahmoud Goudarzi is in Iraq for talks on the enhancement of relations with the Arab country on issues regarding sports and well-being of the younger generation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Iranian minister, who arrived in Baghdad on Sunday night, is going to meet his Iraqi counterpart Abd al-Husayn Abd al-Ridha Abtan and a number of other ranking officials.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters upon his arrival in Baghdad, Goudarzi said he will hold talks on the exchange of technical know-how with Iraqis, Iran\u2019s experience in the management of youth affairs, and organizing joint training camps with Iraqi sports teams.<\/p>\n<p>He also expressed the hope that a recent agreement signed between the football federations of Iran and Iraq would help strengthen their bilateral ties.<\/p>\n<p>The Iraqi minister told reporters that he is grateful to Iran for hosting the sports matches that Iraqi national teams could not play in the Arab country.<\/p>\n<p>Abtan also noted that the Iranian minister\u2019s visit has provided an opportunity for talks on Iraq\u2019s employment of Iranian trainers and coaches in different sporting fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran\u2019s Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Mahmoud Goudarzi is in Iraq&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":22576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-uncategorized"],"views":1444,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22575","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\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}