According to the sports reporter of Tasnim News Agency, the issue of Mehdi Mahdavikia’s contract has become a new challenge in the Football Federation. The head coach of Omid, who qualified for the Asian Under-23 Championship and will have to compete in the Uzbekistan, Qatar and Turkmenistan groups in June. However, remarks by Hassan Kamranifar, secretary general of the Football Federation, raised concerns about the team’s future.
“Until now, Mr. Mahdavikia was the head coach of the Omid football team, but from now on, it is possible that the members of the board will be given the current budgets,” said the secretary general of the football federation, who appeared on the sports network’s football nights program. “Plan.” However, the most important part of Kamranifar’s speech was before he said this about the contract and its amount: [این قرارداد] “It should have been in Rials and it should have been confirmed in the next board that this process took time and we should wait for the new board and the head of the football federation to decide on Omid team and Omid team management and we will move forward.”
Tasnim’s follow-up shows that the matter is something else and the final contract for Mehdi Mahdavikia was in Rials, but it was not signed by Shahabuddin Azizi Khadem, the president of the Football Federation. Now, what is the essence of the story and why Kamrani-Far did not tell parts of this story and wanted to hide the truth.
According to the initial agreement, the Football Federation had set Mehdi Mahdavikia’s contract in euros. However, the treasury of the Football Federation announced that according to the rules, it is not possible to pay foreign currency to coaches and domestic players, and therefore Mahdavi-Kia’s contract should be converted into Rials. This issue was also resolved after talking to Mahdavikia, and the head coach of Omid team had no problem converting his contract from Euro to Rial, and this contract was adjusted to Rials.
The Board of Directors of the Football Federation approved the initial contract, which was set in Euros, and then the Rial contract in the last meeting of the Board of Directors before the dismissal of Azizi Khadem. After the final editing and approval of this document, the contract was supposed to be signed by the president of the football federation, but this was not done and Azizi Khadem was dismissed.
How is it that the Secretary General of the Football Federation talks about converting the contract from Euro to Rial and considers the approval of the Board of Directors necessary, while the mentioned process has already been done? Kamranifar, meanwhile, said the new board should approve the deal, as there has been no change in the composition of the board, and the same board had previously approved the contract, and no new person has been added or changed to the board.
Given that the board of directors of the Football Federation a few weeks ago approved the contract of Mehdi Mahdavikia in Rials and sent it to the head coach of the Omid team, is the new talk of Kamranifar not true?
However, if the Secretary General of the Football Federation had sent the contract to Mehdi Mahdavikia before the approval of the board of directors, he would have violated that he had sent the contract to the head coach of Omid football team before the approval of the board. However, the question should be asked of Shahabuddin Azizi Khadem, the deposed president of the Football Federation, how the head coach of the Omid football team, after more than six months of his activity in this team, has passed one stage of the competition and no contract has been signed until he leaves. Is?
Kamrani Far, as the secretary general of the federation and the first person in charge of the executive affairs of the football federation, must also be held accountable for how he failed to deal with these matters, and now he is facing controversy. While the contract of the head coach of Omid football team, Riali, has been approved by the board of directors, it was sent to Mahdavikia and now the issue is stated differently.