{"id":38273,"date":"2019-12-29T12:52:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T20:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=38273"},"modified":"2019-12-29T12:52:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T20:52:15","slug":"taj-resigns-as-president-of-ffiri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2019\/12\/29\/taj-resigns-as-president-of-ffiri\/","title":{"rendered":"Taj resigns as President of FFIRI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Mehdi Taj resigned on Sunday as head of the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) due to heart problems.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was rushed to hospital last week and the doctors recommended him stepping off from his role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taj has suffered heart problems related to the stress of management twice in one year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran football federation spokesman Amir Mehdi Alavi has confirmed that Taj has resigned from his role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe activities, from now on, will be carried out in accordance with the regulation by the vice president,\u201d Alavi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taj was elected as head of Iran football federation in May 2016, replacing Ali Kafashian, who held the position for eight years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Mehdi Taj resigned on Sunday as head of the Football Federation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":38274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38273","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","category-world-cup"],"views":558,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38273","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=38273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38275,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38273\/revisions\/38275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}