TEHRAN
\nIran\u2019s World Cup team will lodge a complaint with Fifa claiming they are being subjected to travel restrictions during the tournament in North America, the Iranian football federation spokesman said on Thursday.
\n\u201cDespite having submitted its preparation schedule for the tournament well in advance, Iran\u2019s national football team has once again encountered restrictions imposed by the organisers, affecting the implementation of its technical staff\u2019s plans,\u201d the spokesman said.
\nIran wanted to fly from their base camp in Tijuana, Mexico, to the United States two days before their next match, against Belgium in Los Angeles on Sunday. But the Iranian federation said its request was turned down. \u201cGiven that the game will be played at 12:00pm (local time) in Los Angeles, the Football Federation of Iran requested that the team be allowed to travel to Los Angeles two days before the match,\u201d the spokesman said.
\n\u201cThe aim was to provide sufficient time for players to adapt to the match conditions, complete their final training session, and finalise preparations. \u201cDespite the technical reasons presented by the federation, the request was once again denied.\u201d The Iranians were also angry that they had to leave Los Angeles the night of their first game of the World Cup, a 2-2 draw against New Zealand.
\nThe US administration has pushed back against the Iranian claims. Andrew Giuliani, the executive director of the White House Fifa Task Force, said on Monday that Iran had been informed in advance that they would be allowed to come into the United States only on the day before the game. \u201cThe team will be allowed to come in, match day minus one, so the day before the match,\u201d Giuliani told CBS News.
\n\u201cThey\u2019ll be asked to leave the day that the match wraps up, so the evening of the match. And they\u2019ll be able to do that again in Los Angeles.\u201d He added that the procedure would be the same for Iran\u2019s final group game against Egypt in Seattle on June 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TEHRAN Iran\u2019s World Cup team will lodge a complaint with Fifa claiming they are being subjected to travel restrictions during the tournament in North America, the Iranian football federation spokesman said on Thursday. \u201cDespite having submitted its preparation schedule for the tournament well in advance, Iran\u2019s national football team has once again encountered restrictions imposed …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":99312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99315,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99298\/revisions\/99315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}