A news that excited Italian fans suddenly spread widely in the European media, and the French media said that FIFA seized the "handle" of the Asian boss Iran, who found that a large number of female fans armed with tickets were banned from the famous Assadi Stadium during the last round of the World Preliminary Round home match against Lebanon. For this reason, FIFA is considering severe sanctions against the Iranian football team.
In the past, many Iranian men's football matches, female fans have been banned from entering for a long time, of course, this behavior only occurs in Iran, but there are almost no restrictions on Iranian team matches held overseas. In the match between Iran and Lebanon, about 2,000 Iranian female fans bought tickets before the match, but the stadium staff insisted that female fans would not enter. It is also reported that Iranian female fans were also driven away by tear spray when protesting off the stadium. Over the past few years, FIFA has repeatedly warned against the exclusion of female fans from entering Iranian domestic football tournaments, but to poor effect.
In the context of the elimination of the Italian team in this World Preliminary Tournament, FIFA is brewing an unprecedented "big change" trick. The media speculated that FIFA could deprive Asia's boss Iran of tickets for the World Cup, while being replaced by the eliminated team currently ranked in the world. Italy, ranked 6th in the world, happens to meet the "conditions", and according to this logic, it is very promising to successfully make up for the regret of missing the World Cup finals for two consecutive years. There is no official information on the attitude within FIFA, but the European media has widely exaggerated it, and it seems that the news that "Iran was expelled from the World Cup by FIFA" looks like a similar.
Of course, this speculation has not yet been confirmed, after all, such a major decision has never been made in the more than 90 years of the World Cup's history. Secret News believes that this decision is extremely controversial. First, because Iran's quota belongs to the four direct qualifications for the final round owned by the AFC, it should also be replaced by Asian teams according to the distribution rules; second, there is no precedent in the history of the World Preliminary Round for teams that have been disqualified from qualifying; third, Iran has not violated at least any violations in the specific course of the game (this point senegalese fans should be punished for interfering with Egypt with laser pointers). Therefore, the news in the European media may be just wishful thinking.
What do you think about that? If the Italian team really relies on this matter to make up for it, do you think FIFA's behavior is appropriate?