Published by Al-Araby Tehran on Friday said “politics” was behind the decision by Canadian football authorities to cancel a friendly against Iran in preparation for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 finals. “Canada’s decision to call off a friendly with Iran is testimony to the fact” that it “can’t keep politics off the pitch”, Kazem Gharibabadi, vice-president of Iran’s judiciary

Published by Prime Time Sports Talk For the first time since 1986, Canada will be participating in a FIFA World Cup. During the third round of the CONCACAF qualifying phase, the Canadians managed to avoid defeats to the likes of both the United States and Mexico. For Canada to beat both Mexico and the United States at home and hold

Published by Al-Araby Saudi Arabia’s coach Herve Renard has signed a new five-year deal after guiding the team to this year’s World Cup in Qatar, football officials announced on Friday. The Frenchman was shown signing a shirt with the number “2027” in a video posted by the official Twitter account of the Saudi national team. Saudi Arabia is bidding to

Published by Al-Araby Canada’s football governing body on Thursday said it had cancelled a friendly match with Iran, as families of the victims of a passenger jet downed by Iranian air defences campaigned against the match. News of the scheduled match, which was set to take place on 5 June in Vancouver as part of preparations for the 2022 World