{"id":24293,"date":"2016-02-10T11:08:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T19:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24293"},"modified":"2016-02-10T11:08:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T19:08:50","slug":"24293","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/02\/10\/24293\/","title":{"rendered":"UEFA General Secretary arrives in Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mehr News Agency &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>UEFA General Secretary arrived in Tehran on Wednesday morning for consultations with Iranian Football Federation officials.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gianni Infantino, as one of the candidates of the upcoming FIFA presidental elections, arrived in Tehran to exchange views with Ali Kafashian, President of the Iranian Football Federation.<\/p>\n<p>He was welcomed by Head of the AFC Futsal and Beach Soccer Committee Abbas Torabian upon arrival at Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>General Secretary of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) said \u201cI have travelled to Iran in order to talk about the progress of football and FIFA; I also intend to meet old friends like Abbas Torabian with whom I have been in contact for several years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing the first ranked team in Asia, Iran remains a country of football,\u201d noted Infantino stressing \u201cI have become a candidate for the FIFA presidency and it is natural that I travel to various countries; I seek to talk about football and FIFA development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During his one-day trip to Tehran, the UEFA General Secretary will discuss various issues about football with Iran\u2019s Ali Kafashian before visiting the Iran National Football Academy.<\/p>\n<p>Gianni Infantino will also take part at a press conference and respond to questions from reporters.<\/p>\n<p>The F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) presidential elections will take place at the Extraordinary FIFA Congress in Zurich on 26 February 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mehr News Agency &#8211; TEHRAN, UEFA General Secretary arrived in Tehran on Wednesday morning for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23098,"featured_media":24294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup"],"views":2094,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24293","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\/23098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}