{"id":32258,"date":"2018-06-07T22:40:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T05:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=32258"},"modified":"2018-06-07T22:40:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T05:40:54","slug":"iranian-coach-appeals-to-fifa-over-nike-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/06\/07\/iranian-coach-appeals-to-fifa-over-nike-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian coach appeals to FIFA over Nike boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Day After &#8211; MOSCOW, <strong>Iran national football team\u2019s head coach Carlos Queiroz has called on FIFA to intervene after US sportswear giant Nike said it would not provide shoes to Iranian players in the World Cup in line with American sanctions, media reports said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlayers get used to their sports equipment, and it\u2019s not right to change them a week before such important matches,\u201d Press TV quoted Queiroz as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe call on FIFA to come to our help in this issue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s first Group B match will be held against Morocco in St. Petersburg on June 15 and Iranian players will have to wear another brand while 60 percent of all players in the 32-team World Cup will be wearing Nike\u2019s shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Nike said its decision was in line with US President Donald Trump\u2019s announcement in May to withdraw from Iran\u2019s nuclear deal and reimpose sanctions on the Islamic republic, Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions are to kick in six months after the announcement, but a number of European companies have jumped the gun and already started winding down business in Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Day After &#8211; MOSCOW, Iran national football team\u2019s head coach Carlos Queiroz has called&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":32259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32258","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","category-world-cup"],"views":2193,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32258","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=32258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32260,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32258\/revisions\/32260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}