The Iranian national soccer team had a good week on its troubled path to playing World Cup games in the United States in June.
A first face-to-face meeting with FIFA president Gianni Infantino since the U.S. and Israel started a war against Iran on February 28 made genuine progress in soccer diplomacy at the end of a fraught month.
The Iranian soccer federation’s upbeat readout of the meeting in Turkey made no mention of moving
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