According to the sports reporter of Tasnim news agency, the case of Mark Wilmots has caused heavy damage and losses to the country’s football, but it is interesting that the perpetrators of this contract seek to exonerate themselves under the pretext of sanctions. However, the issue that is not mentioned is the assets of the football federation to pay the amounts related to this disgraceful contract.
Mehdi Taj, the former president of the Football Federation and the first-tier defendant of this heavy and harmful damage to Baitul Mal, while pointing to the American sanctions to exonerate himself, he must first answer an important question. How despite the fact that Iran’s football assets are known in FIFA, he intends to present the truth in the way he likes and emphasizes that the football federation had 10 million dollars in FIFA during his time, but FIFA strongly denies this issue.
After many uncertainties about the financial accounts of the Football Federation and World Cup bonuses, the reporter of Tasnim news agency corresponded with FIFA to get the details of Iran’s accounts. FIFA, which, unlike the federation, prioritized transparency, in response to Tasnim’s questions, specified that the football federation’s assets from the 2014 and 2018 World Cup bonuses were zero, and contrary to Mehdi Taj’s claim at that time and now, the football federation has no money. FIFA did not have to pay Marc Wilmots. FIFA gave the following answer to Tasnim about the details of the financial account of the Football Federation:
“The $2.2 million in World Cup bonuses referred to in our previous response to you is the benefit to clubs at the 2018 World Cup.
Regarding FAP/FIFA Forward contributions, the details are as follows:
– Former Financial Assistance Program (FAP): 1 million 47 thousand 970 dollars
Operating expenses (Forward 1.0): 413,800 dollars
– Budget of Forward 1.0 projects: one million 273 thousand 263 dollars
Operating expenses (Forward 2.0) for 2019: one million dollars
– The budget of Forward 2.0 projects for the cycle between 2019-2022 after the proposed projects are approved: 2 million dollars
Total construction budget: 5 million 735 thousand 33 dollars.
With respect”.
This FIFA response clearly states that the Football Federation did not have any money from the 2018 World Cup and even a document later published in Tasnim news agency stated that the Football Federation’s account of the 2018 World Cup bonus was zero. The interesting thing is that the Football Federation signed a contract with Mark Wilmots, despite the sanctions, he didn’t even have money in his account to pay Wilmots and the sanctions prevented it.
All the request of the Iranian Football Federation from FIFA after the 2018 World Cup Five million and 735 thousand and 33 dollars You arrive and Two million 254 thousand and 95 dollars It was the share of the clubs. The issue to consider is that according to FIFA’s financial rules, the football federation could not use these resources to pay the head coach of the national team, and this money was only for construction projects and operational costs such as talent search projects, women’s football, refereeing classes, etc. .
Despite FIFA’s clear answer and the lack of financial resources, the first question is why Mehdi Taj and his board of directors in the federation signed a heavy contract with Mark Wilmots that they could not afford to pay, without considering internal and external resources and also the intensification of sanctions. ? Since the financial resources must be secured before any commitment is made, how did the Football Federation go under the burden of a commitment of nearly 10 million dollars with Wilmots and his assistants and now claim to have 10 million dollars at that time? While FIFA explicitly denied such an issue and declared the federation’s assets to be zero, the perpetrators of this harmful and heavy damage have set up a sanction maneuver to exonerate themselves. Even if we consider that the Football Federation had such money, before signing the contract with Wilmots, FIFA had sent a letter to the Football Federation emphasizing that due to the tightening of sanctions, it is not possible to pay money to a third party, which was ignored.
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