I haven’t said much about this World Cup, but I’m going to say this:
I never expected anything other than pettiness and bigotry from this administration.
And I definitely never expected anything less than corruption and incompetence from FIFA.
But I did expect basic decency and sportsmanship from the competition.
I have lost every ounce of respect I ever had for players and teams who remained silent in the face of blatant discrimination and unfairness against one participant.
At this point, not a single one of them is worth being called a sportsman, let alone holding the title of world champion.
People keep asking the Iranian players if they support LGBTQ rights.
Why doesn’t someone ask the U.S. players if they support the U.S funded genocide in Palestine?
Sometimes I wonder what life is like for non Iranians?
Like how does it feel to be given the gift of life on this earth and not have every hope & desire not utterly smashed into pieces repeatedly again and again for your entire life?
Dearest Black Stars,
Every embassy in Accra is neutral tonight.
Except one.
There are other ways we could qualify tonight.
We could wait for Algeria. We could hope Congo slips.
But we'd rather owe it to you.
Beat Croatia. 🇬🇭
تیم را هفتهها برای ویزا در ترکیه معطل کردند؛ نهایتا ویزای ساعتی و تنها به بازیکنان و بخشی از کادر دادند؛
محل اردوی تیم را دو بار عوض کردند؛
فرقه خائن پهلوی و زامبیهایش را به جان تیم انداختند؛
#تیم_ملی_ایران اما در خاک آمریکا شکست نخورد.
و ایرانیان آمریکا هم از آن حمایت کردند.
@AguilarCaira67 Exactly my point. There was another defender deeper on the field. It just disregarded them. They brought on the “expert” and he was talking handball then when they called offside they all went silent. 🧐
Ramin Rezaeian reacts to Iran’s dramatic 1-1 draw with Egypt, sending an emotional message to the Iranian people (translated from Persian):
“I don’t know what to say. I don’t know why we have such bad luck—once, twice, three, four, five times.
I don’t know what our people have done to deserve this.
I hope we can still qualify so they can feel better, they deserve more than this.
We fought as hard as we could. It didn’t matter if we had died tonight. We just wanted to make our people happy.
We have been fighting for months. We never asked for anything in return.
Every one of these players is honorable. We played for the love of our people.
People of Iran, we love you so much. I am sorry, that is all I can say.”
This guy has sermons before he was senator where he says Israel is a colonial apartheid state. I look down on the character of someone like this even more than a lifelong Zionist.
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to be in spaces with people who seem entirely unmoved by the avalanche of cruelty and brutality we’re currently witnessing in the world.