First team is eliminated from the tournament
Haiti held tight for the first 20 minutes against dominant Brazilians. Then the first goal is scored and shortly afterwards the game is decided. There is no longer a chance for the football dwarf to progress. Read more about this here.
“Dark spot”: Iran criticizes travel conditions
The Iranian Football Association has once again expressed sharp criticism over restrictions on its team by the world football association Fifa. “In my opinion, such disregard for our rules and agreements calls football itself into question,” said association head Hedajat Mombeini to journalists in Tijuana on Friday (local time). The Iranian association had previously announced that it would formally complain to FIFA about travel restrictions on its team Soccer World Cup to want to insert.
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“This will be a dark stain in the recent history of the World Cup “Rules must be followed,” Mombeini added. According to the association, the Iranian national teamwhich has its World Cup quarters in Tijuana, Mexico, will enter the USA two days before the second group game against Belgium on Sunday. However, the application was rejected and the team was only allowed to go to the venue on Saturday Los Angeles break open.
FIFA’s World Cup rules stipulate that teams should travel from their quarters to the venue the day before a game, but in “exceptional cases” they may travel two days beforehand. The White House World Cup official, Andrew Giuliani, rejected the Iranians’ complaints. Iran had been informed in advance that its team was only allowed to enter the USA the day before the game and had to leave the country again on the day of the game, he said on CBS News on Monday. This will also be the case in the third group game against Egypt on June 26th in Seattle.
Curaçao’s goalscorer watches the goal “every day”.
Even after a few days, Curaçao’s Livano Comenencia still hasn’t processed its special World Cup moment against Germany. The midfielder of the smallest World Cup participant in history said with a broad grin that he looks at his goal in the opener against the DFB team (1:7) “every day”. He looks back on the goal “with a nice feeling.” Comenencia scored in Houston to make it 1-1 (21st minute) against the DFB team.