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Infantino promises FIFA backing for Iran to play at World Cup
Infantino said FIFA will keep Iran on the 2026 World Cup schedule and has no backup plan as the team seeks safer venues.
- On Tuesday, FIFA President Gianni Infantino met the Iranian national team in Antalya, Turkey, promising to "continue to support" their World Cup preparations.
- The team's recent actions honor victims of a February 28 missile strike in southern Iran that killed more than 165 people, mostly children, amid escalating Middle East hostilities.
- Before Tuesday's 5-0 win against Costa Rica, players held photographs of children allegedly killed by United States and Israeli airstrikes, echoing a prior backpack gesture against Nigeria.
- Citing safety concerns after President Donald Trump discouraged attendance, Iranian officials requested that FIFA move three group stage matches to Mexico.
- Infantino confirmed there is only "Plan A," with FIFA insisting the tournament proceed as scheduled in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
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By César López, CNN en Español Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA, assured that Iran will attend the World Cup as planned, without any change in the calendar or adjustment in the logistics of the tournament that begins on June 11 in Mexico City. In statements to the AFP agency, in his visit to Turkey and in the framework of the friendly match between Iran and Costa Rica, Infantino assured that the Iranian team “will be in the World Cup” and wil…
The president of the International Football Federation (FIFA), Gianni Infantino, said that the Iranian national team will participate in the upcoming World Cup and that they will play their matches in the USA, as originally planned.
Despite the war in the Middle East, FIFA President Gianni Infantino is pushing for Iran to participate in this summer's World Cup, which will be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Iran’s players and technical corps and leaders of the Iranian Football Federation posed before a friendly match against Costa Rica, fought in Antalya (southern Turkey) with photos of the victims of an attack on a school on the first day of the war in the Middle East, a AFP journalist found. The air attack on the school in the Iranian southern city of Minab, on 28 February, killed at least 170 people, including students and teachers. The U.S. new…
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