{"id":39289,"date":"2020-05-19T17:11:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T00:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=39289"},"modified":"2020-05-19T17:11:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T00:11:15","slug":"wilmots-cheated-the-ffiri-mehdi-taj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/05\/19\/wilmots-cheated-the-ffiri-mehdi-taj\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilmots cheated the FFIRI: Mehdi Taj"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Former president of the Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) Mehdi Taj has said that Marc Wilmots has cheated on the federation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Belgian left his position as coach of Iran after six matches in charge in early December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilmots was appointed in May to lead Iran in their quest for a sixth World Cup appearance after Carlos Queiroz had secured back-to-back qualifications for the first time in the country\u2019s history, however he terminated his agreement with Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) seven months later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilomts has recently said he has filed a complaint against Iran to FIFA and is waiting for the verdict. He also accused the Iranian federation of manipulating his contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is no possibility of manipulation in the contract. Wilmots doesn&#8217;t seem to use language responsibly,\u201d Taj said in an interview with state-run TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have to pay compensation to him for just three months not two-year. He has cheated on the federation,\u201d the ex-president added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under coaching of Wilmots, Iran defeated minnows Hong Kong and Cambodia in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers but lost to Bahrain and Iraq in Group C that left Iran in the third place in the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Former president of the Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":25426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,142,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-memory-lane","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":865,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39289","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=39289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39290,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39289\/revisions\/39290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}