{"id":36830,"date":"2019-06-23T17:32:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T00:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=36830"},"modified":"2019-06-23T17:32:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T00:32:23","slug":"iranian-french-mehdi-bayat-becomes-rbfa-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/06\/23\/iranian-french-mehdi-bayat-becomes-rbfa-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian-French Mehdi Bayat becomes RBFA president"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; BRUSSELS, \u00a0<strong>Iranian-French Mehdi Bayat has been elected as new president of Royal Belgian Football Association (RBFA) on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bayat, 40, has been named as G\u00e9rard Linard\u2019s successor after receiving 15 votes at an extraordinary general meeting of KBVB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gilbert Timmermans and Philippe Godin came second and third, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Tehran and raised in Cannes, Bayat has been the managing director of Charleroi since September 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I am a child of Belgian football,&#8221; Bayat said after taking his new role. &#8220;That&#8217;s what I told the Executive Committee when I applied. I came to Charleroi 17 years ago. I learned the profession here and didn&#8217;t skip any steps.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is important that I have always had a good relationship with everyone. Everyone knows that I have a good sense of diplomacy. Now, my first task is to manage the changes that the federation stands for. I will do my best to support management but I&nbsp;want much more transparency,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Belgium sit top of the FIFA ranking.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; BRUSSELS, \u00a0Iranian-French Mehdi Bayat has been elected as new president of Royal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":36831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36830","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-uncategorized"],"views":1410,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36830","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=36830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36832,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36830\/revisions\/36832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}