{"id":503493,"date":"2026-06-21T05:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T05:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/503493\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T05:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T05:05:07","slug":"coach-says-iran-still-being-treated-poorly-by-us-at-world-cup-ahead-of-second-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/503493\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach says Iran still being treated poorly by US at World Cup ahead of second match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"Q3OGTKQ6Z5AQZG2542EDIEQ5JE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2014 Iran coach Amir Ghalenoei says that although his team is still being treated unfairly by the host U.S. at the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/fifa-world-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup<\/a> through travel restrictions and visa refusals, he is optimistic FIFA will persuade the Americans to lessen some of those strictures next week.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"GFFVTNQZVNGQPPM46T2GJYLVBY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">\u201cI am very glad that the Iranian nation is behind us,\u201d Ghalenoei said through an interpreter. \u201cOur martyrs in Iran, we play for them. But I know that this kind of behavior has hurt our people. Even if we spent billions of dollars, we would not be able to have justice for our people. It just shows we are an oppressed country. But nevertheless, I hope we achieve peace, and I hope this kind of behavior does not become institutionalized in the World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2014 Iran coach Amir Ghalenoei says that although his team is still being treated unfairly by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8316,42,43,231445,19711,105,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-503493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-soc-wcup-iran-returns","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}