What Transpired at the Meeting of Iran's Two Newsmaking Sports Chiefs? / Peace and Friendship Cup with Taj and the Secretary Present! (Photo)

The Secretary's visit today to the National Football Center was in effect a continuation of the meeting held yesterday with Mehdi Taj at the Wrestling Federation.

According to Sport Se report, Alireza Debir recited his noon prayer, turned the rosary and calmly sat on the back of his friend's motorcycle and entered the National Football Center from the first exit after passing through the parking lot of Keshti House on Ali Daei Blvd. A building attached to the house surrounded by the ship where Mehdi Taj and Awan and his followers were waiting for him, 24 hours after Taj had traveled this route in the opposite direction and went to Debir. It was natural for the secretary to return this visit out of respect for the white hair of the old president of the Football Federation. So, with the same sports outfit, Nike t-shirt, jeans and running shoes, he got off the motorcycle and climbed the stairs in front of the entrance of the building where Taj sits.

This appointment was arranged in advance and the photographer of the football federation was ready to take pictures of this meeting. The photos in which Taj and Debir were having fun and forgetting the sad events of the past few days.

From what can be seen in the pictures, in most of the pictures Alireza Debir is talking and the members of the federation are listening, which of course is the usual practice of the head of the wrestling federation. Interestingly, the football players did the same thing to the secretary that he does to others; Visiting the facilities, constructions and bricks laid by the federation. Therefore, somewhere the secretary heard the words of Taj and also Parhizgar, the man of executive affairs and construction of the federation; Talks in which Taj talked about the difficulties of this work, the effects of war, etc. They also visited Pak for the first time for Ali Dabeir to see the center where the national team members are engaged in physical training, and to give Iran football its well-equipped recovery center. The president of the two news-making federations, wrestling and football, finally took a photo in front of the academy building decorated with the names of Minab children, while it was as if the two faces were from two different planets.

Actually, although today's meeting was an opportunity for peace between Taj and Secretary, but under the friendly layer, these two have been comparing themselves with each other. Where is football and where is wrestling, how far can football go and how high is the level of wrestling, which one is the more successful federation or does a wider job or has a better system, or, or, or...

Anyway, we take from these pictures what you would expect: they reconciled. In fact, a truce was established between them, while in the photos Mehdi Mohammadnabi, the vice president of the federation, and Amir Mehdi Alavi, the public relations officer, are also present, but there is no news of Rahman Salari, a member of the board of directors, and other governing figures of the football federation.

This was a reconciliation that took place with the mediation of people like Amir Ghalenoui, Reza Haddadian and Tenni Chand, friends of both sides, and therefore, contrary to what the secretary had promised in his last press conference, there is not going to be any new talk about football from the head of the wrestling federation. Probably, Taj wanted the secretary to be busy with his own work, especially since the American World Championships are near and wrestling will soon occupy even more attention than football for a few days.