{"id":338435,"date":"2025-12-11T06:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T06:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/338435\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T06:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T06:20:12","slug":"egypt-and-iran-protest-seattle-fifa-match-over-pride-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/338435\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt and Iran protest Seattle FIFA match over Pride celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Controversy over a <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/fifa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FIFA<\/a> World Cup game scheduled for Seattle could have ramifications for Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net\/70c8fc80\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Egypt and <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/iran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a> have filed complaints with FIFA over their World Cup match in Seattle, which is slated to include Pride celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>The two teams were selected in the FIFA draw to play at Seattle\u2019s Lumen Field on June 26.<\/p>\n<p>Both federations argue that the Pride event contradicts their cultural and religious values. Both countries criminalize gay relationships and in Iran it is punishable by the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Vancouver\u2019s World Cup preps'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WEB_fifa_pic_2.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:29<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVancouver\u2019s World Cup preps\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Seattle Pride organizers say their programs will proceed on that day, suggesting that FIFA might move the game between Egypt and Iran to Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11572110\/albert-recall-petition-danielle-smith\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765434010_216_52963021384_f597bdd6b6_k.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tDanielle Smith becomes first Alberta premier in 90 years to face citizen recall\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11571881\/us-travel-esta-social-media-family-history\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765434011_672_1dd356d57fe2713fbe33e823b1d133c19207b86faa499bfe153e1e0d82211a95.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tVisiting U.S.? Here\u2019s who may need to share social media, family details\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>However, the Vancouver Pride Society told Global News that if that should happen, there will probably be Pride events in Vancouver as well.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765393751_868_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s in the middle of Pride season, and Pride month is in June, around all of North America,\u201d Morgane Oger with the Vancouver Pride Society said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVancouver Pride is the end of July, but Eastside Pride is in June if my calendar mind is correct, and we\u2019re certainly not gonna give up Eastside Pride just because some people want to play soccer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FIFA has not commented on the matter at this time.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Controversy over a FIFA World Cup game scheduled for Seattle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,17706,3274,43,5897,44,82,41,39,42,40,2845],"class_list":{"0":"post-338435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-egypt","10":"tag-fifa","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-top-news","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-topnews","18":"tag-topstories","19":"tag-u-s-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}