Taj reelected president of Iranian Football Federation
Mahdi Taj was reelected as the president of the Iranian Football Federation for another four years, taking the helm at the national governing body of the sport for a third term.
Taj, 65, claimed 72 of the votes in Saturday’s general assembly of the federation against 10 for Amir Abedini – a former chairman of the federation in the 90s – in the two-horse race for the role.
A vice-president to AFC president Shaikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa, Taj first took the job at the federation in 2016 but stepped down from his role three years later, for what he claimed to be a health issue.
He was reelected to the role in August 2022 and went on to replace then-Iran head coach Dragan Skocic by his Portuguese predecessor Carlos Queiroz for the World Cup finals in Qatar.