Former Iranian Football Federation chief arrested

September 14th, 2009 | by: Afshin Afshar | Comments(1)

This is old news by now, but I think it is important to report it to those football fans who may not know yet. As most of you know many of the prominent members of the moderate faction of the Iranian politics have been in custody since the elections and are going through mock trials. One of these prominent politicians is former Iranian Football Federation chief Mohsen Safahi-Frahani.

Mr. Farahani was arguable one of the more successful Iranian football chiefs in the last 30 years. He was in charge of Iranian football from 1998 through 2002.

Mr. Farahani was arrested on June of 2009 during the aftermath of the presidential elections.