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Iran to play its final World Cup warm-up match behind closed doors, head to Mexico on Saturday
The soccer team, staff, and Iranian citizens can enter the US for the event, but officials with ties to the regime will be barred from attending.
US bars drone flights over sites of World Cup matches
FIFA and Iran’s identity crisis - opinion
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Is FIFA going to ban Israeli soccer this week? All you need to know
Israel has denied the accusations by the Palestinian Football Association, with the Israeli soccer chief calling attempts to remove Israel “cynical" and "hostile."
To keep football beautiful, give the Palestinian campaign of hate a ‘red card’ - opinion
In order to indeed keep football as a force for good and politics out of sport, FIFA must once and for all give a ‘red card’ to Jibril Rajoub’s relentless campaign of hate against Israel.
FIFA postpones decision on Palestinian bid to suspend Israel
The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) had submitted a proposal to suspend Israel in May over the war in Gaza, with FIFA ordering an urgent legal evaluation.
FIFA orders legal review of Palestinian call to suspend Israel
The Palestinian proposal accuses the Israel Football Association (IFA) of complicity in violations of international law by the Israeli government and discrimination against Arab players.
'UEFA should ban Israel from international competitions,' says Russian soccer official
Accusing UEFA of being biased, he related his comments to the current conflict between Israel and Hamas to the war between Russia and Ukraine that began last year.
Yael Arad to FIFA president: Put yourself in Israel's shoes
Israeli Olympic Committee chair Yael Arad confronts FIFA president for lack of condemnation following Hamas atrocities.
Athletes’ Israel support continues to rise
Blatt’s moving message • Mayweather sends aid on private plane • Olympic medalists weigh in
Spanish soccer chief's mother goes on hunger strike after son kissed player
Angeles Bejar said her strike would last "until a solution is found to the inhumane and bloody hunt they are carrying out against my son with something he does not deserve."
FIFA suspends Spain federation president for kissing player
FIFA, soccer's world governing body, opened disciplinary proceedings against Rubiales on Thursday. Rubiales refused to resign, saying on Friday that the kiss was "mutual and with consent."
Editor's Notes: Israel’s World Cup Cinderella story
“There is only one big, united family. If only we would learn to live in such brotherhood and peace in our country.”
