{"id":41981,"date":"2021-03-29T07:10:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T14:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=41981"},"modified":"2021-03-29T07:10:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T14:10:33","slug":"azizi-khadem-to-meet-afc-president-sheikh-salman-in-manama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/03\/29\/azizi-khadem-to-meet-afc-president-sheikh-salman-in-manama\/","title":{"rendered":"Azizi Khadem to meet AFC President Sheikh Salman in Manama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, <strong>Head of Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) Shahabeddin Azizi Khadem has been invited to Manama, Bahrain to meet Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President Sheikh Salman Bin Ibrahim Al Khalifah.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Azizi Khadem will have to travel to the Persian Gulf country on April 3 to meet the AFC President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting will serve as an opportunity to further strengthen the partnership between the FFIRI and the AFC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhilst we appreciate the interest by the FFIRI to host the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 \u2013 Preliminary Competition and AFC Asian Cup China 2023 Qualifiers \u2013 Preliminary Joint Qualification Round 2, we would like to inform that the decision was made by the AFC General Secretariat after due consideration and deliberation, factoring various areas, including but not limited to the standard of the proposed Stadiums\/facilities, risk assessment on logistical, commercial and financial arrangements for the Participating Member Associations as well as the national medical\/Covid-19 pandemic status; and the AFC President does not intervene in the decisions made by AFC General Secretariat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We appreciate your interest to host the Competition despite the challenges brought about by the pandemic and assure you of the AFC\u2019s continued support in achieving your goals,\u201d the AFC\u2019s letter reads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TEHRAN, Head of Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) Shahabeddin Azizi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":41982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,92,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":1070,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41981","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=41981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41983,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41981\/revisions\/41983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}