The Ongoing Repercussions of the Al-Ittihad and Sepahan Match Cancelation: Updates from the AFC

The repercussions of the crisis of canceling the match between Al-Ittihad and Sepahan are still continuing, so what is new with the AFC?

Over the past few days, the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has acted with great confidence about resolving the crisis of canceling Sepahan’s confrontation with Al-Ittihad Al-Ittihad, but the truth appears to be quite the opposite.

The Saudi general arrived in Iran in the middle of last week in preparation for facing Sepahan, in the second round of the group stage of the AFC Champions League, but the match observer decided to cancel it due to the presence of political pictures and statues at the entrances to Naqsh-e Jahan stadium, and the Iranian side’s insistence on not removing them after 45 minutes had passed from the supposed date. To launch.

During the past few days, Hussein Amir Allahian confirmed; The Iranian Foreign Minister reached an agreement with his Saudi counterpart to replay the match and notified the Asian Football Confederation of this agreement, but the latter denies these allegations.

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Malaysian Dato Windsor John; The General Prince of the Asian Confederation said during his statements to Al-Riyadiya newspaper: “We do not know anything about the agreements that some people talked about during the past days. The Continental Union is not a party to them at all, and the Disciplinary Committee will resolve the issue of this match soon. It is moving step by step and is not in a hurry.” The decision will be announced, but new steps will be announced in the coming days.”

He added: “Decision date? We hope that it will be before the third round of the group stage, which is scheduled to start on October 23.”

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It is noteworthy that the match caused major divisions on the Iranian side. While the Iranian Football Federation confirms that the match was canceled for security reasons and not because of the presence of political pictures and statues, the Sepahan Club denied these allegations.

While the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called for resolving the crisis by resuming the meeting, the representative of the Iranian leader attacked it, demanding that the Saudi club be prevented from entering the country again and even prevented from facing any Iranian team externally.

2023-10-08 07:19:56

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