The Anglo-Saxons are trying to “shove” Ukraine into the 2022 World Cup in Qatar

The Iranian opposition has joined the sports fuss on the side of Kyiv

Ukrainian sports websites and almost all TV channels are seriously discussing the possibility of excluding the Iranian football team from the participants in the final stage of the World Cup. In Group A of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), the Iranians took 1st place following the results of the qualifying tournament, ahead of the traditionally strong team of South Korea. In place of a very promising team, which currently occupies the 20th place in the FIFA rankings, Ukrainian sports journalists predicted … the Ukrainian team. If FIFA really decides to make a political decision, the Ukrainians will find themselves in Group B along with England, the USA and … Wales, which in the playoff final “hooked” Oleksandr Petrakov’s team from the 2022 World Cup.

At the end of last week, the leadership of the International Federation of Football Associations received an official request from a group of Iranian political and sports figures regarding the possibility of suspending the activities of the Iranian Football Association. The text of the document is replete with harsh definitions of the “Ayatollah regime.” Allegedly, at present, “the inhuman and militant attitude of the state towards its own people has reached a critical point.” Therefore, Iran must be firmly and uncompromisingly “distanced from the football and sports world.”

Iranian women, according to the request of the opposition, are constantly denied access to stadiums throughout the Islamic State. Women footballers are “systematically excluded from Iran’s football ecosystem, in stark contrast to FIFA values.” If women are prohibited from entering Iranian stadiums, and the Iranian Football Association obediently follows government instructions, ensuring their strict implementation, such a sports body cannot be considered an independent organization, free from any form or type of influence – and this is a violation of Article 19 of the Charter FIFA”.

Recently, Iran experienced a serious wave of mass protests. The reason for the speeches was the death of 22-year-old Magsi Amini: the Iranian police beat the girl for wearing the hijab incorrectly…

Today, Shakhtar Donetsk general director Sergei Palkin joined the anti-Iranian campaign. https://www.sportmk.ru/sports/2022/10/24/gendirektor-shakhtera-prizval-isklyuchit-iran-iz-chisla-uchastnikov-chm2022.html He is convinced: Iran has no place at the World Cup-22, but Ukraine allegedly “should be at the World Cup.” The nominal head of the club, a multiple champion of Ukraine (the actual owner of Shakhtar is the richest citizen of Ukraine Rinat Akhmetov – author) considers it unacceptable “the entertainment of the Iranian leadership in the process of watching the game of their national team in Qatar – while the Ukrainians will be fired upon by Iranian drones – kamikaze and Iranian missiles.

Less than a month is left before the opening of the World Cup. The national team of Ukraine, for obvious reasons, is not preparing for it.

It is noteworthy that football functionaries from England, Scotland and a number of other states friendly to Ukraine strongly support the idea of ​​“replacing” the Iranian national team with the team that lost the last playoffs of the 2022 World Cup. Surely, at the same time, understanding that in order to popularize football on the Asian continent, it would be more expedient to include one of the teams that took 3rd place in the selection for the Championship in Qatar to the number of participants in the final tournament.