Mehdi Taremi scored from shut vary to guide Iran’s nationwide soccer workforce to a 1-0 victory over Iraq and seal the Islamic Republic’s third straight World Cup berth.
HIGHLIGHTS | Iran 1-0 Iraq
Iran ebook their 2022 FIFA World Cup berth with a win over Iraq in entrance of their adoring supporters!
#AsianQualifiers , #IRNvIRQ pic.twitter.com/gjCrkZOAk8— #WAC2022 (@afcasiancup) January 28, 2022
Taremi, the FC Porto striker, scored the one objective of the sport within the forty eighth minute within the second half. He scored from contained in the penalty field on a cross from midfield Ali Reza Jahanbakhsh.
Iran’s win got here in Group A of the Asia area.
The win at Tehran Azadi stadium was Iran’s earliest bounce into the qualifiers. It marked the sixth time Iran has earned a spot within the World Cup within the nation’s historical past.
Despite the quick unfold of the aggressive omicron variant of the coronavirus in Iran, the federal government Wednesday accepted the presence of some 10,000 spectators within the 100,000-seat stadium.
More than 2,000 have been ladies. It was the second main soccer occasion that Iranian ladies have watched within the stadium. In 2019, for the primary time in a long time, lots of of Iranian ladies have been allowed to observe Persepolis play the Kashima Antlers of Japan within the Asian Champions League closing.
FIFA had lengthy demanded that Iran present assurances that ladies shall be allowed to attend 2022 World Cup qualifiers.
Women have been primarily prohibited from attending males’s video games and different sports activities occasions in Iran for the reason that 1979 Islamic revolution.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
