Rat after Middle East he also opened a number of sports issues, and in addition to major changes and events in the Euroleague and the World Cup in football, he is encountering problems.
In a little more than 100 days, in United States of America, Canada and Mexico will start the World Cup in football. Iran Football Federation President Mehdi Tay said he is not sure if the national team will be able to play World Cup matches in the US.
"With what happened, after the attack by the United States, it is unlikely that we can rejoice." World Cup. But it is the sports managers who have to decide on that," Mehdi Taj told Iranian television.
Iran is scheduled to play its first two games against New Zealand and Belgium in Los Angeles before traveling to Seattle to face Egiot.
Interestingly, should the USA and Iran teams finish second in their groups, they would play each other in an elimination game on July 3rd in Dallas.
Iran and the USA have already played each other twice at the World Cups, both times in the group stages. Iran won 2:1 on its debut in France in 1998, but the Americans triumphed four years ago in Qatar with a goal by Christian Pulisic.
Trump is not interested in Iran's involvement
US President Donald Trump said that he does not care if Iran's football team will participate in the upcoming World Cup.
"I really don't care. I think Iran is a badly beaten country. They are using their last strength," Trump said in an interview with Politico.
Last year, he signed an executive order barring citizens of a number of countries, including Iran, from entering the US. Security threats were cited as the reason.
Although the players and coaching staff were exempted, the visa requests of some officials were rejected, so Iran threatened to boycott the December draw in Washington. If Iran participates in spite of everything, there will certainly be maximum security control.
Photo: Gian Ehrenzeller/Keystone via APDonald Trump in Davos
The head of the White House working group for the World Cup, Andrew Giuliani, supported the US administration's moves, stressing that "soccer will be decided tomorrow", while security issues are a priority.
FIFA said it was monitoring developments, but at this stage officials are saying privately that they expect Iran to play at the World Cup.
The World Cup is organized by FIFA, and the general secretary of the organization, Matthias Grafström, said that the priority is for all qualified national teams to participate.
"Our focus is a safe World Cup with all participants," Grafstrom told a media conference in Wales.
Who will replace Iran?
And while FIFA, through General Secretary Matthias Grafström, officially announced that it is monitoring the situation, and that "it is too early for any comments", unofficially there is already a plan for action if Iran decides to leave the tournament.
Photo: ScreenshotIran football team
Instead of Iran, the place in Group G would be taken by Iraq in that case.
This, due to the historical and extremely complex relations between Iraq and Iran, despite the fact that they have been brought closer at the moment by the attack of the US and Israel, would rub salt into an already painful wound for the people of Iran.
