{"id":39265,"date":"2020-05-17T09:15:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T16:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=39265"},"modified":"2020-05-17T09:15:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T16:15:46","slug":"football-leagues-to-resume-behind-closed-doors-hassan-rouhani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/05\/17\/football-leagues-to-resume-behind-closed-doors-hassan-rouhani\/","title":{"rendered":"Football leagues to resume behind closed doors: Hassan Rouhani"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Iran football leagues will resume after the holy month of Ramadan, President Hassan Rouhani said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rouhani said that the competition will resume under the terms of a strict health protocol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe football leagues will restart after the holy month of Ramadan but the competitions must be played behind closed doors,\u201d Rouhani said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iranian Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi had already announced plans to ease the coronavirus lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe held a meeting with Mehrzad Khalilian (head of the Sports Medicine Federation) and discussed with a view to complete the season as the organizers of La Liga, Serie A and Bundesliga are going to make it happen,\u201d Harirchi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith nine weeks remaining, we can finish the current season in six weeks. The teams will have three weeks to prepare for the competition,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, acting head of Iran Football League Organization Soheil Mahdi has said that the Hazfi Cup is as important as Iran Professional League (IPL) and the Iranian football knockout cup competition will resume as well as the IPL after the government approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mahdi said the Iran Football League Organization waits to be formally informed by the country\u2019s Coronavirus Combat and Prevention Headquarters about the exact date of resuming the competitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The death toll from the novel coronavirus in Iran surpassed 6,900 on Friday, while nearly 92,000 positive cases have recovered from the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Iran football leagues will resume after the holy month of Ramadan,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":39266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,164,136,87,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-ipl","category-iran-first-division","category-c14-ipl-league-persian-gulf-cup","category-persian-gulf-pro-league"],"views":538,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39265","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=39265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39267,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39265\/revisions\/39267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}