Breaking: Authorities urgently instruct team not to do what they had no intention of doing anyway

[mahnmut]

The Iranian national team has been instructed to leave the United States hours after the end of their World Cup match against New Zealand:

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The Iranian team travels every day to Mexico, where their camp is based. They have no intention of staying overnight on U.S. territory.

However, that does not stop the U.S. authorities from ordering them not to do something they were never planning to do.

The only conclusion that stands out here is that the U.S. authorities want to humiliate the Iranian team.

The only thing is that the Iranian people have already humiliated the U.S. authorities, after forcing Trump to sign that Obama Iran Deal v.2.0.

Which only shows what failures Trump, the U.S. authorities, and the entire country are right now.

As for this World Cup being the worst in recorded memory (so far), and FIFA being a bunch of corrupt imbeciles, that's a whole other story.

Comments

[fridi]

On a side note... Football has always been defined by free-flowing, unbroken action. But for the World Cup in America, FIFA is using "hydration breaks" to shoehorn in commercials and to Americanize the game. And of course everyone hates it.

[asthfghl]

Hydration breaks are fine, given the heat. Ads during that time are not. Show match replays, highlights, match analysis, anything. Not ads.