now with a place in The Knockout stage,
on the line Iran and United States face
each other in a group b Clash at the
altumama stadium . despite what’s at stake
on the field , the build up to the match
has been dominated by an off the field
controversy.
the public relations Goff by the US
soccer Federation .they posted a graphic
of the group table on social media
without the Islamic emblem in the center
of the Iranian flag . a miffed Iranian
Football Federation lodged a complaint
to The Wilds football governing body
FIFA .and demanded the US
not to be suspended for 10 games.
the post was eventually deleted by the
US Socca body and an updated posts with
a proper flag was put up.
the intent of the post is to show
support for women’s rights. it was meant
to be a moment , we made the post at the
time all the other representations of
the flag remain consistent, and will
continue to
this controversy has already added more
spice to the already politically charged
up .
much despite not being able to return
maximum points from any of their two
opening games Tyler Adams and Company
have shown. they are hungry for Success,
on the international stage, they looked
like the better side against England and
were unlucky not to bug all three points
on Friday. Greg bahalter’s side needs to
be their absolute best to get their
first victory in Qatar ,because anything
else would see them board the plane back
home.
to this press conference of for us, it’s
just focus you know we’re not looking
backwards. where there’s no talk about
you know the performance against Wales
or England. now it’s really focused on
Iran, how we can be successful against
them and what I see from the group is
this tremendous amount of focus .there’s
no real distractions you know.
I know there’s a lot going on here ,but
the group is focused on how do we get a
win.
as for Iran after getting humiliated by
England in their campaign opener team.
melee seemed to be back to the
performance levels that earned them a
place at the World Cup ,during the two
nil victory over Wales.
they know a win against
the USA is the US passage to The
Knockout stages of the FIFA World Cup for the
first time in their history. although
even a draw on Tuesday will be enough if
Wales failed to beat England. but it is
sure not going to be easy coach Carlos
Heroes.
who has branched off suggestions that
they would use the flag controversy as
motivation ahead of the game.
look I said it and I repeat it again in
my opinion, the credit
we need to talk not from the
theorical and favorites point of view. we
need to talk about the facts and there
are two facts that are, that
you’re not question the team in this
group. that will perform the the produce
the best two performances.
in our group was without any doubts
United.