{"id":52395,"date":"2026-03-11T23:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=52395"},"modified":"2026-03-11T23:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:04:15","slug":"iran-confirms-mens-national-team-will-not-play-world-cup-games-in-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/03\/11\/iran-confirms-mens-national-team-will-not-play-world-cup-games-in-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Confirms Men\u2019s National Team Will Not Play World Cup Games in USA \u2013 Eduzim News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"post_data\">\n<p>Iran Confirms Men\u2019s National Team Will Not Play World Cup Games in USA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sports Correspondent \u2013 Iran\u2019s sports minister, Ahmad Donyamali, has confirmed that the country\u2019s men\u2019s national football team will not play at the upcoming World Cup in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Iran had been scheduled to play some of its group-stage games on U.S. soil, but ongoing conflict between Iran and the United States has made participation impossible.<\/p>\n<p>The minister did not provide details on alternative plans for the team or how this decision will affect their World Cup schedule<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span id=\"wordads-inline-marker\" style=\"display: none;\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- #comments --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Iran #Confirms #Mens #National #Team #Play #World #Cup #Games #USA #ZimEye<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran Confirms Men\u2019s National Team Will Not Play World Cup Games in USA Sports Correspondent \u2013 Iran\u2019s sports minister, Ahmad&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,11],"tags":[834,857,6694,1551,4423,1600,801,202,2331,201,990,589],"class_list":["post-52395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi","category-world","tag-confirms","tag-cup","tag-eduzim","tag-games","tag-iran","tag-mens","tag-national","tag-news","tag-play","tag-team","tag-usa","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52396,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52395\/revisions\/52396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}