{"id":25827,"date":"2016-08-14T11:24:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T18:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=25827"},"modified":"2016-08-14T11:24:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T18:24:43","slug":"ali-kaffashian-to-contest-for-fifa-council-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/08\/14\/ali-kaffashian-to-contest-for-fifa-council-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Ali Kaffashian to contest for FIFA council seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN,<strong> Iran Football Association vice-President Ali Kaffashian is among the candidates who will contest for the new seats on FIFA\u2019s ruling council.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Asian Football Confederation says seven candidates passed integrity checks by FIFA to stand for election by its member federations on Sept. 27 in Goa, India.<\/p>\n<p>Four men competing for two FIFA Council seats are: Ali Kaffashian Naeni of Iran; Zhang Jian of China; Saoud Al Mohannadi of Qatar; Zainudin Nordin of Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates for a women\u2019s seat guaranteed to each of FIFA\u2019s six confederations are: Moya Dodd of Australia; Mahfuza Ahkter of Bangladesh; Han Un Gyong of North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Dodd has led the promotion of women\u2019s football as a co-opted FIFA executive committee member since 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran Football Association vice-President Ali Kaffashian is among the candidates who will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":25828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news"],"views":1807,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25827","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=25827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}