🇮🇷🇳🇿 Finally, Iran, the most anticipated team at the World Cup, albeit for purely political reasons. Their opponent will be New Zealand, a team from a country where inclusivity and multiculturalism are hotly debated social issues.
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Infantino's latest idea: a match between #Israel and #Palestine as the opening match of the FIFA U-15 tournament in the United States next September.
Russia will also participate in the tournament, although it has been suspended since March 2022.
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🇪🇸 Rafa Mir, 28-year-old Spanish striker for Elche, was sentenced today to 8 years and 6 months in prison for sexual assault and bodily harm, in addition to paying €64,000 in compensation to the victim. The sentence is not yet final.
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Already on April 30, Infantino had tried to improvise a handshake between the president of the Palestinian Football Association, Jibril Rajoub, and the vice president of the Israeli Football Association, Basim Sheikh Suliman, during the FIFA Congress.
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Pablo Jara, a lower-division footballer and friend of Mir, was sentenced in the same trial to 2 years and 6 months in prison and ordered to pay €6,280 in compensation to the second victim. The events date back to September 2024.
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🇧🇪🇪🇬 The Belgian national team as a unifying symbol in a historically divided country, and Egyptian football split by the conflict between the fans and the Al-Sisi regime.
These are the political themes of tonight's match at the #2026WorldCup.
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🏆 Skyrocketing prices, denied visas, rampant political propaganda: welcome to the worst World Cup ever, courtesy of Trump and Infantino.
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Last Friday, after months of protests, the Irish Football Association (FAI) obtained UEFA's permission not to play in Dublin. Ireland vs. Israel will therefore be played abroad behind closed doors, at a venue yet to be determined.
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🇸🇦🇺🇾 In the next match, Saudi Arabia (which has now become the economically dominant power in global football) against Uruguay (whose local league is rapidly being privatized).
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🇵🇸 Palestinian Football Association president Jibril Rajoub refused to shake hands with Israeli Football Association vice president Basim Sheikh Suliman yesterday at the annual FIFA Congress in Vancouver. FIFA president Infantino had attempted to force them to shake hands as a public gesture.
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🇮🇪 #Ireland 's Nations League match against #Israel on October 4 will be held on neutral ground and not in Dublin, the Irish Football Association FAI announced today, after months of protests.
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La sentencia, que no es firme, establece una indemnización de 64.000 euros para la víctima
