🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran's World Cup squad landed in Mexico wearing pins bearing the number 168.
Not a jersey number. A body count. The 168 children killed when a U.S. missile hit a school in Minab on February 28th. Most of them were young girls.
The strike was later confirmed to be a U.S. military mistake. 175 people total died.
Now the same country that launched that strike is hosting Iran at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Monday.
The players didn't need a press conference. They let the pins do the talking.
This is the first World Cup in history where a host nation is fielding a team from a country it's actively at war with. The optics were already impossible. Iran just made sure nobody looks away.
Source: Daily Mail/Writer: Jamie
Courtside at MSG is funny because it’s like beloved former Knicks star from the ‘90s next to an insanely famous actor next to the CEO of a company that turns orphans into AI data center liquid coolant.
The Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan, selected by @FIFAWorldCup and distinguished by CAF as the best African referee of 2025, was rejected upon arriving in the United States at Miami airport and deported back to Istanbul.
This World Cup is the worst.
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One of the most remarkable stats in history.