{"id":510658,"date":"2026-03-31T13:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=510658"},"modified":"2026-03-31T13:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:21:11","slug":"infantino-iran-will-play-world-cup-matches-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/infantino-iran-will-play-world-cup-matches-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Infantino: Iran will play World Cup matches in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran will take part in the World Championship, and their matches will be played in the US as scheduled, claims FIFA chief Gianni Infantino.<\/p>\n<p>There has been ongoing uncertainty about the participation of Iran in the World Cup because of the war between the United States and Israel with the Middle Eastern country.<\/p>\n<p>The football governing body in Iran revealed earlier in March that they are negotiating to relocate Iran&#8217;s matches in the World Championship from the USA to Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIran will play in the World Cup this summer,\u201d FIFA president shared with the media. \u201cWe are very happy about that because they have a great team and they will have the chance to show it to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe games will be played according to the original plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iran is scheduled to play against New Zealand and Belgium in LA on 15 and 21 June, respectively, and Egypt in Seattle, 5 days after that.<\/p>\n<p>The World Cup, which starts on June 11<sup>th<\/sup>, will be played in the USA, Canada, and Mexico.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: FIFA President Gianni Infantino has told AFP that Iran \u201cwill be at the World Cup\u201d despite the US-Israeli war on Iran. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JQGjYCPtkm\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/JQGjYCPtkm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Al Jazeera Breaking News (@AJENews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJENews\/status\/2038984649314070735?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 31, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran will take part in the World Championship, and their matches will be played in the US as scheduled, claims FIFA chief Gianni [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":510659,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17810,16724],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[20983,21743],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The FIFA president shared that Iran must play their games in the US.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/510658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/510658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510660,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/510658\/revisions\/510660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510658"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=510658"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=510658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}