{"id":37247,"date":"2026-03-11T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2026\/03\/11\/soccer-infantino-says-trump-welcomes-irans-world-cup-team\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:50:00","slug":"soccer-infantino-says-trump-welcomes-irans-world-cup-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimetro.hk\/plus\/2026\/03\/11\/soccer-infantino-says-trump-welcomes-irans-world-cup-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-Infantino says Trump welcomes Iran&#8217;s World Cup Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA President Gianni Infantino said on Wednesday that he met with US President Donald Trump, who told him he welcomed Iran\u2019s participation in the 2026 Soccer World Cup, which will be co-hosted by the U.S., Mexico and Canada.<br \/>Iran was the only nation missing \u2060from a FIFA planning summit for World Cup participants held last week in Atlanta, deepening questions over whether the country&#8217;s soccer team will compete on U.S. soil this summer amid an escalating regional war.<br \/>Trump told Politico earlier that he is not concerned about Iran&#8217;s participation, as they were a &#8220;very badly defeated country&#8221;.<br \/>&#8220;We also spoke about the current situation in Iran, and the fact that the Iranian team has qualified to participate in the FIFA World Cup 2026,&#8221; soccer&#8217;s world governing body, FIFA, boss Infantino said in a post on his official social media account.<br \/>Infantino added &#8220;During the discussions, President Trump reiterated that the Iranian team is, of course, welcome to compete in the tournament in the United States.<br \/>Iran secured a trip to a fourth successive World Cup by topping Group A in the third round of Asian qualifying last year, but Mehdi Taj, president of the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of \u2060Iran, said the viciousness of the attacks by U.S. and Israeli forces did not augur well for the World Cup, to be held from June 11 to July 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA President Gianni Infantino said on Wednesday that he met with US President Donald Trump, who told him he welcomed Iran\u2019s participation in the 2026 Soccer World Cup, which will be co-hosted by the U.S., Mexico and Canada.Iran was the only nation missing \u2060from a FIFA planning summit for World Cup participants held last week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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