Saffeya Ahmed

Do you have any complicated feelings when it comes to showing pride for your country at the same time as maybe disagreeing with a regime in power?

Now there is a chance that the U.S.

and Iran end up playing each other in this World Cup.

And given the tensions between the two nations, I asked Zain al-Zadeh what that matchup might look like.

I'm Safiya Ahmed, reporting from New York City.

Special thanks to the FT's sports editor, Josh Noble, for his reporting from Los Angeles.

Criticise me if I'm doing a really bad job.

I have no problem with that.

But not for being a woman.

That's just crazy.