Football academy to open in Iran

Tehran, June 15 - "FIFA is going to help Iran to start a football academy in the country," said the chairman of the Iranian Football Federation, Mohsen Safaii Farahani, here on Friday.
Farahani did not specify the exact date and city where the academy is going to be set up.
He said that in the meeting he had with his Irish counterpart a friendly game was agreed to be played by the two national teams.
Safaii Farahani, pointing to a similar understanding he had concluded with his Tunisian counterpart, said: "In a meeting I had with Dutch Football Federation officials, we agreed that dutch instructors would come to Iran to teach two advanced football club management classes."
Talking about an upcoming "LG Cup" which is to be hosted by Tehran, he said: "The LG Cup is going to be held in Tehran on September 10-12 and we will soon announce the participating teams."
The chairman of the Iranian Football Federation further disclosed that the Iranian national team will have a two week training session in Croatia in July during which they will play against 5 Croatian clubs after which they will head for Kiev (capital city of Ukraine) to play against this country's national team."