{"id":27314,"date":"2017-02-24T21:04:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T05:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27314"},"modified":"2017-02-24T21:04:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T05:04:23","slug":"iran-and-romania-discuss-friendly-match-as-both-federations-ink-mou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/02\/24\/iran-and-romania-discuss-friendly-match-as-both-federations-ink-mou\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran and Romania discuss friendly match as both federations ink MoU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The Iranian and Romanian football federations signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) as part of efforts to boost cooperation between the two countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The MoU was signed on Thursday at the headquarters of Iran Football Federation in Tehran, the capital of Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The signing saw the participation of Iranian Football Federation president, Mehdi Taj, and his counterpart Razvan Burleanu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIranian and Romanian football have so many common characteristics, and the European country is available to travel for our teams,\u201d Taj said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo develop football in the various areas focusing on the area of girls and women\u2019s football development, coaching, and refereeing are our priorities,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Iran can also help Romania in beach soccer and futsal since the teams have won medals in the last year, Taj stated.<\/p>\n<p>Romanian Football Federation president Razvan Burleanu added that they are also interested in arranging friendly matches with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to congratulate the Iranian football federation for being the best Asian team in FIFA rankings. Furthermore, Team Melli has a great chance to qualify for the 2018 World Cup,\u201d Burleanu said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are happy due to cooperation with Iran as a European country. We like to arrange friendly matches with Iran football team. Football is a popular sport both in Iran and Romania and I hope that the two countries advance to the 2018 World Cup,\u201d the Romanian added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, The Iranian and Romanian football federations signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":2916,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27314","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=27314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}