{"id":41323,"date":"2021-01-02T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=41323"},"modified":"2021-01-02T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T16:00:09","slug":"daei-not-interested-in-ffiri-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/01\/02\/daei-not-interested-in-ffiri-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Daei not interested in FFIRI elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>The Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) appears set to elect a new President on February 28 but Ali Daei has denied rumors that he is going to participate in the elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voting has been delayed multiple times because FIFA demanded changes be made to the FFIRI&#8217;s statutes, alleging government interference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FIFA first told the FFIRI that changes needed to be made in 2019, and in May of 2020 it rejected a set of FFIRI documents it judged did not resolve the issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ali Daei, the world&#8217;s all-time leading goalscorer, has said he has no intention to take part in the elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some local media reports suggested that the ex-Iran forward and Ali Karimi, former Team Melli midfielder, are going to participate in the elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN, The Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) appears set to elect&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":41324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":419,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41323","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=41323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41325,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41323\/revisions\/41325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}