Manny Jasmy
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first heard Jun 2026
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The day after America first attacked Iran, the president of the Football Federation said on television that he sort of hinted that there was doubts about Iran going to the World Cup and there were similar sentiments from the sports minister.
I never thought there was any chance of Iran pulling out of the World Cup.
They tried to get FIFA to move their games to Mexico and there was never any chance of that happening either.
But they have, as you say, moved their training ground to Mexico.
And that will be a huge relief to the Iranian Football Federation because they were worried that being in America would attract a lot of anti-regime Iranians living in the community.
And the whole thing would become a circus.
So that has been allayed now.
And the players have their visa.
The coaches have their visas.
It's just largely peripheral stuff.
who haven't been given their visas.
Two of them are important because they're media officers.
They would expect to be at press conferences.
And another two are analysts.
And quite often what happens in football is at halftime, analysts using data guide the coaches about the trend of the match, which the coach may not have been aware of.
The analysts won't have a visa either, but all of them have gone online.
to Mexico, and the plan is that they will continue to lobby for everyone to get a visa for the States.
Well, on paper, I think they're in a group that they can progress from.
They've got Belgium, who are the toughest team in the group, and then New Zealand and Egypt.
But leaving the visa issue aside, there's a question about whether they'll be allowed into the US the night before their matches so they can train at the stadium.
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