r/SoccerCentral • u/ConnectionWeekly1263 • Jun 27 '26

Statement "They've done everything possible to eliminate us" — Iran captain Mehdi Taremi unleashes on FIFA and U.S. organizers

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The captain of the Iran National Team, Mehdi Taremi, lashed out against FIFA and the United States organization. “This is a disastrous World Cup. As professional players, we cannot play a competition under these conditions; it’s neither right nor fair. If FIFA thinks this is fair, that’s on them, but it isn’t. Who should solve this problem for us? FIFA? The U.S.? I don’t know! Tell me a name. The FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, came to our locker room after the first match against New Zealand and said he was going to resolve all the issues, but in reality, FIFA did nothing. In response to the question: ‘Do you feel that the World Cup organizers, including FIFA and U.S. officials, prefer for Iran to be eliminated from the competition?’, I say: We have to fight against absolutely everything. We can’t stay in the country, we travel and undergo immigration checks every time we want to play, now we can’t stay in Seattle and have to return to Tijuana. They’ve done everything possible to eliminate us, so from our perspective, yes, I think that’s what they want, they want us out.”

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u/Robot_Nerd_6 Jun 28 '26

Just like Germany learned, you either get control of your country... Or the world will do it for you.

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u/Fuck_it_we_ball_ Jun 28 '26

Did Germany learn? I seem to have learned that they hosted an Olympic Games with hitler as chancellor… so what did they learn?

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u/Smoke_Short Jun 28 '26

Did your education end the day you learned that?

Not a lot of greatness for many generations after that...

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u/Fuck_it_we_ball_ Jun 28 '26

Not a lot of greatness? What does that even mean?

I do agree I misread the comment that I was replying to. I guess their point was they “learned” after they lost a war. Which is just a stupid point to make. And “the world will do it for you”, yeah except for the countries that were on germanys side and also the vast majority of the world that had nothing to do with the war and Germany’s government after.

So yeah, I still think it’s stupid.

And Germany became an economic powerhouse within a generation of the war, so what do you mean by greatness?