{"id":38913,"date":"2026-06-15T12:51:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=38913"},"modified":"2026-06-15T12:51:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:51:53","slug":"zu-gast-fuer-achtundvierzig-stunden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/zu-gast-fuer-achtundvierzig-stunden\/","title":{"rendered":"A Guest for Forty Eight Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"
After months of uncertainty, the Iranian team reaches the United States, from exile in Tijuana, with a visa for less than two days and the obligation to return after every match. For the first time in World Cup history, the host nation is at war with a participant!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Shortly before four o\u2019clock on Sunday, a representative of FIFA apologized, saying that the Iranian team had been delayed, telling journalists at SoFi Stadium near Los Angeles who had come for what would otherwise have been an insignificant pre match press conference. But there was nothing insignificant about it. For months uncertainty had hung over Iran\u2019s participation in the World Cup, ever since the American Israeli strikes on the country, and when the captain and head coach finally stepped before the press, a major hurdle had been crossed. Iran had made it into the United States and opens against New Zealand on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n