{"id":53815,"date":"2025-09-10T08:14:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=53815"},"modified":"2025-09-10T08:14:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:14:25","slug":"infantino-assures-iran-for-2026-world-cups-participation-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2025\/09\/10\/infantino-assures-iran-for-2026-world-cups-participation-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Infantino assures Iran for 2026 World Cup\u2019s participation [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TASHKENT, <strong>FIFA President Infantino assured the team members of Iran national football team that FIFA will do its utmost to resolve visa-related issues and facilitate the teams\u2019 participation in upcoming tournaments, including the 2026 World Cup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Infantino visited Iran\u2019s locker room shortly after the 1-0 loss against Uzbekistan in the 2025 CAFA Nations Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>Team Melli were heartbroken in the 120th minute after Khojiakbar Alijanov found the back of the net with a header.<\/p>\n<p>Infantino assured the team members that FIFA will do its utmost to resolve visa-related issues and facilitate the teams\u2019 participation in the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The FIFA president said there will be no serious problem for the Iranian national team\u2019s trip to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, many Iranian athletes have been denied visas to participate in international competitions, mainly in the U.S. and European countries.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the team\u2019s members took a photo with Infantino and Team Melli\u2019s No. 7 shirt was presented to the FIFA President. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u062d\u0648\u0627\u0634\u06cc \u0628\u0639\u062f \u0627\u0632 \u0634\u06a9\u0633\u062a \u0627\u06cc\u0631\u0627\u0646 \u0645\u0642\u0627\u0628\u0644 \u0627\u0632\u0628\u06a9\u0633\u062a\u0627\u0646\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zC8yg7vQgEU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; TASHKENT, FIFA President Infantino assured the team members of Iran national football&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":53816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,92,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c21-international-football-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":968,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53817,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53815\/revisions\/53817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}