{"id":371365,"date":"2026-06-23T10:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T10:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/371365\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T10:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T10:58:18","slug":"iran-soccer-team-leaves-handwritten-note-at-los-angeles-hotel-heres-their-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/371365\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran soccer team leaves handwritten note at Los Angeles hotel. Here\u2019s their message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(CNN) &#8211; Iran\u2019s soccer team left a handwritten note in its locker room Sunday after playing to a 0-0 draw with Belgium in World Cup action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The note said the team\u2019s players came to the U.S. \u201cwith pride, competed with honor, and leave with dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In the next line, the team thanked Los Angeles for its hospitality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The note ended with \u201cMay peace, respect and friendship prevail among all nations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Iran\u2019s national team played two matches in Los Angeles and next travels to Seattle for a match against Egypt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Travel restrictions have relegated Iran\u2019s team to base in Tijuana, Mexico for their entire run of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(CNN) &#8211; Iran\u2019s soccer team left a handwritten note in its locker room Sunday after playing to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[61169,12017,11190,150497,48,52,51,47,50,150498,49,5393],"class_list":["post-371365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-belgium","tag-egypt","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-iran-soccer-team","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-hotel","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}