{"id":14582,"date":"2025-12-10T22:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=14582"},"modified":"2025-12-10T22:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:44:07","slug":"mohammad-zakaria-zamani-boxer-and-former-associate-of-the-suicide-unit-appointed-head-of-southern-futsal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/mohammad-zakaria-zamani-boxer-and-former-associate-of-the-suicide-unit-appointed-head-of-southern-futsal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohammad Zakaria Zamani, Boxer and Former Associate of the Suicide Unit, Appointed Head of Southern Futsal."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mohammad Zakaria Zamani, Boxer and Former Associate of the Suicide Unit, Appointed Head of Southern Futsal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mohammad Zakaria Zamani, a boxer with a reported history of cooperation with the Taliban\u2019s \u201cmartyrdom (suicide) unit,\u201d has been appointed as the head of the Futsal Committee for Afghanistan\u2019s southern zone.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a post on his Facebook page, Zamani thanked Farid Yusufzai, the deputy head of the futsal committee, and pledged to serve the development of futsal, especially in the southern region.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sources indicate that Zamani has worked with the Taliban\u2019s suicide unit for several years and has maintained close ties with senior Taliban figures.<\/strong><\/p>\n

His appointment has triggered strong reactions among athletes, futsal enthusiasts, and journalists, raising questions about the criteria for selecting a boxer for a managerial position in futsal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Afghanistan Football Federation has not released an official comment yet; however, Farid Yusufzai has confirmed Zamani\u2019s appointment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Concerns and criticism regarding the relevance of his background to futsal management continue to circulate.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mohammad Zakaria Zamani, Boxer and Former Associate of the Suicide Unit, Appointed Head of Southern Futsal. Mohammad Zakaria Zamani, a boxer with a reported history of cooperation with the Taliban\u2019s \u201cmartyrdom (suicide) unit,\u201d has been appointed as the head of the Futsal Committee for Afghanistan\u2019s southern zone. In a post on his Facebook page, Zamani […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14592,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14582\/revisions\/14592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}