Iran’s World Cup Ambitions Clash with War Shadows Amid High-Stakes Infantino Talks

Iran's World Cup Ambitions Clash with War Shadows Amid High-Stakes Infantino Talks

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Iran, therefore, is on track to come to Arizona and start preparing for a first game on June 15 against New Zealand at the Los Angeles Rams stadium in Inglewood.

Iran soccer’s better week

The FIFA-mandated break for clubs to release their players to national teams gave World Cup squads up to nine days together and two warmup games.

Iran was scheduled to go to Jordan, another World Cup team, where Nigeria and Costa Rica were invited to be opponents in back-to-back games. When the war spread across the Middle East, those games were switched from Jordanian capital Amman to the safety of Antalya in southern Turkey.

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