‘It’s a disaster World Cup…’ : Iran captain Mehdi Taremi lashes out at FIFA | Football News
4 min readJun 27, 2026 05:16 PM IST With the 1-1 draw against Egypt in their group G encounter at Seattle on Saturday, Iran has failed to win any match in the ongoing FIFA World Cup. The Mehdi Taremi led team, which was earlier scheduled to set base at Tucson, Arizona, for their World Cup campaign, had to set base in Tijuana, Mexico with the US government stopping the nation’s football team to set base in the country amid the US-Iran war and making the Iran football team leave the US cities the same night as of their matches in the World Cup. Iran skipper Mehdi Taremi has hit out at FUFA as well US authorities calling the World Cup a ‘disaster World Cup’. “It’s a disaster World Cup; a disaster. I mean, FIFA, they have to solve every problem here but unfortunately they could not solve it since the beginning. FIFA president Gianni Infantino came to our changing room after the first game against New Zealand and said, ‘It’s just the beginning…’ but the …
