{"id":37429,"date":"2019-09-03T17:18:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T00:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37429"},"modified":"2019-09-03T17:18:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T00:18:36","slug":"team-melli-coaching-staff-meet-with-sports-minister-soltanifar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/09\/03\/team-melli-coaching-staff-meet-with-sports-minister-soltanifar\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Melli coaching staff meet with Sports Minister Soltanifar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran TImes &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran national football team head coach Marc Wilmots handed Team Melli No. 10 jersey to the minister of youth affairs and sports, Masoud Soltanifar, on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team Melli coaching staff held a meeting with Soltanifar at the headquarters of the Youth and Sports Ministry in Tehran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/139806121524170518284054-700x487.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/139806121524170518284054-700x487.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/139806121524170518284054-144x100.jpg 144w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/139806121524170518284054-350x244.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/139806121524170518284054-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/139806121524170518284054.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilmots, joined by his assistants Vahid Hashemian, Manu Ferrera and Laurent Spinosi in the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) president Mehdi Taj also attended the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coaching staff voiced their concerns about the Team Melli matches at the 2022 FIFA World Cup and AFC Asian Cup China 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran will face Hong Kong in their opener on Sept. 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran have been drawn in Group C alongside Iraq, Bahrain, Cambodia and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The eight group winners and four best runners-up will advance to the AFC Asian Cup China 2023 Finals and the final round of qualifying for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next best 24 teams from the second round of the joint qualifiers will compete in a separate competition for the remaining 12 slots in the 24-team AFC Asian Cup China 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran TImes &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran national football team head coach Marc Wilmots handed Team Melli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":37430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37429","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-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1326,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37429","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=37429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37432,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37429\/revisions\/37432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}