{"id":38379,"date":"2020-01-10T19:17:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T03:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=38379"},"modified":"2020-01-10T19:17:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T03:17:47","slug":"sports-minister-meets-fifa-president-infantino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/01\/10\/sports-minister-meets-fifa-president-infantino\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports minister meets FIFA President Infantino"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times -LAUSANNE,<strong> Iran&#8217;s Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs, Masoud Soltanifar, hold a meeting with FIFA President Gianni Infantino in Lausanne, Switzerland.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iranian top sports official attended Winter Youth Olympic Games 2020 Opening Ceremony Thursday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soltanifar says the purpose of the trip is to hold bilateral talks with the International Olympic Committee officials about the Iran\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI had been invited to the ceremony to discuss bilateral matters a few months ago. We will talk about several issues related to Iran\u2019s sports and we will also discuss about our delegation in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo,\u201d Soltanifar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will want to achieve full potential in our sports and the several meetings have been scheduled with the world\u2019s top officials for this purpose,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soltanifar also met Infantino during the opening ceremony of the Winter Youth Olympic Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI told Mr. Infantino the General Assembly of Iran Football Federation will be held in the shortest possible time and the activities of the federation will be carried out in accordance with the regulation by the acting president. I talked to him about Mehdi Taj, who was forced to step down as president of football federation due to heart failure, and Infantino expressed how sorry he is about that,\u201d Soltanifar stated. &nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times -LAUSANNE, Iran&#8217;s Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs, Masoud Soltanifar, hold a meeting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":38380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,156,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-olympics","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":431,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38379","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=38379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38381,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38379\/revisions\/38381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}