{"id":37792,"date":"2019-10-18T19:12:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T02:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=37792"},"modified":"2019-10-18T19:12:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T02:12:46","slug":"mehdi-mahdavikia-becomes-member-of-ifab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/10\/18\/mehdi-mahdavikia-becomes-member-of-ifab\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehdi Mahdavikia becomes member of IFAB"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>Former Iran national football team winger Mehdi Mahdavikia bec\u0634me a member of the International Football Association Board (IFAB).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has been appointed in the new role as a member of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) in the board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IFAB is the body that determines the Laws of the Game of association football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IFAB was founded in 1886 to agree standardized Laws for international competition, and has since acted as the &#8220;guardian&#8221; of the internationally used Laws. Since its establishment in 1904, FIFA, the sport&#8217;s top governing body, has recognized IFAB&#8217;s jurisdiction over the Laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IFAB is known to take a highly conservative attitude regarding changes to the Laws of the Game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, Former Iran national football team winger Mehdi Mahdavikia bec\u0634me a member&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":37793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,93,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37792","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-c22-players-spotlight","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":738,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37792","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=37792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37794,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37792\/revisions\/37794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}