{"id":34419,"date":"2018-12-08T11:47:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T19:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=34419"},"modified":"2018-12-08T11:47:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T19:47:10","slug":"mehdi-taj-nominated-for-afc-vice-president-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2018\/12\/08\/mehdi-taj-nominated-for-afc-vice-president-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehdi Taj nominated for AFC Vice President post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) president Mehdi Taj has been nominated for the Asian Football Confederation\u2019s (AFC) vice president post.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This was confirmed by the Asian governing body on Saturday, with the elections scheduled for April 6, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In accordance with Article 32.1 of the AFC statutes (Edition 2018), the member associations were notified that the election for members of the AFC Executive Committee (term 2019-2023) would be held at the congress in Kuala Lumpur on April 6.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Member associations were given until midnight (Malaysia time) on Dec 6 to submit their nominations as per the requirement set out in the AFC statutes (Edition 2018) and its electoral code (Edition 2018),&#8221; read the statement by AFC.<\/p>\n<p>There are five vice president spots up for grabs with Taj being one of the nominees, representing Central Asia.<\/p>\n<p>For the AFC\u2019s top post, incumbent Shaikh Salman Ebrahim Al Khalifa was nominated again. He will be challenged by two other nominees &#8211; Saoud A Aziz Al Mohannadi from Qatar and Emirati Mohamed Khalfan Matar Saeed Alromaithi.<\/p>\n<p>AFC are also expected to select six names to be on the FIFA council and nine AFC executive committee members at the Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) president Mehdi Taj&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":34420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34419","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-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":833,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34419","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=34419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34421,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34419\/revisions\/34421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}