Iran’s soccer workforce nonetheless lacks US visas and isn’t competing on ‘equal phrases’, Tehran’s envoy to Mexico says.
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Iran’s soccer workforce nonetheless lacks US visas and isn’t competing within the World Cup on “equal phrases” due to its problem in coaching forward of the event, Tehran’s ambassador to Mexico mentioned on Thursday.
Abolfazl Pasandideh visited the northwestern Mexican border metropolis of Tijuana, the place Iranians have relocated their coaching camp. They had been initially deliberate to be based mostly in Tucson within the US state of Arizona.
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The ambassador informed a information convention that “the nation to the north” – which means the USA – had not adopted by means of on its accountability of internet hosting the Iranian workforce.
“We don’t know whether or not or not they’re going to present the gamers their visas,” he added.
Iran will play their three World Cup group video games in two West Coast US cities: Los Angeles and Seattle. The pinnacle of the Iranian Soccer Federation has mentioned there was hope that the gamers can be granted a number of entry visas.
“We aren’t taking part within the World Cup on equal phrases,” Pasandideh mentioned.
“We haven’t been capable of prepare our workforce like they need to,” he mentioned, due to the US-Israel warfare on his nation that started on February 28.
On Wednesday, Iranian diplomats visited the stadium the place the workforce is coaching, a supply from Membership Tijuana that performs there informed the information company AFP. The diplomats additionally met with native safety officers, the supply mentioned.
Iran are on account of play in Los Angeles on June 15 towards New Zealand, and on June 21, towards Belgium. They then play in Seattle towards Egypt on June 26.
