{"id":36217,"date":"2019-04-29T10:47:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T17:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36217"},"modified":"2019-04-29T10:47:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T17:47:14","slug":"croatian-olympic-president-matesa-meets-iranian-sports-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/04\/29\/croatian-olympic-president-matesa-meets-iranian-sports-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Croatian Olympic president Mate\u0161a meets Iranian sports officials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The Croatian Olympic Committee (COC) President Zlatko Mate\u0161a is in Iran to meet the Iranian top sport officials.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a meeting held in the National Olympic Committee of Iran headquarters, the two committees inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to boost sports cooperation between two countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mate\u0161a was warmly welcomed by Iran NOC President Reza Salehi Amiri in the meeting and they predicted a bright future for sports cooperation between two parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mate\u0161a also held a meeting with Iranian Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Masoud Soltanifar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the visit, the COC President awarded Luka Modric No. 10 jersey to Soltanifar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to deepening cooperation and building stronger ties between Iran and Croatia. Iran can help Croatia in sports including weightlifting, taekwondo, wrestling, karate and wushu and Croatia is sporting powerhouse in athletic, gymnastic, swimming and water polo. We have to promote the exchange of programs, experiences, skills, and knowledge to support our athletes,\u201d Soltanifar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mate\u0161a also said Croatia is looking forward to further strengthen the bilateral cooperation with Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are here to boost sports collaboration between two countries. We can exchange coaches and athletes and hold seminars in sports education. Branko Ivankovic (Persepolis coach) is one of the popular sports characters in Croatia and we are happy there is a connection between two nations by football,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zlatko Mate\u0161a also met the Iranian handball and basketball federations\u2019 presidents and signed MoU with them to boost cooperation in these sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, The Croatian Olympic Committee (COC) President Zlatko Mate\u0161a is in Iran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36217","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":651,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36217","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=36217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36219,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36217\/revisions\/36219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}