Iran’s football league has replaced this Wednesday in what will be first woman to referee a men’s soccer match in the Persian country and now all the referees are men in the Tehran derby that will be held this Wednesday.
“It was a decision made by the Arbitration Committee, which removed all the possible controversies”, said the president of the Iranian Football League Organization, Soheil Mahdi, reported the state agency IRNA. Mahdi did not specify what he meant by “possible controversies.”
Mahsa Ghorbani I will be the first girlr to be part of a refereeing team in a men’s soccer match in Iran, although his role was limited to VARwhich raised hopes that women would play a greater role in men’s football in Iran.
Now it will be replaced by the man Saadolah Golmoradi in the VAR room in tonight’s match in Tehran between Esteghlal and Persepolis, in the biggest derby in Iranian football and in all of Asia, mixing two historic rivals divided for historical, sporting and social reasons.
For 40 years, the Islamic Republic of Iran women were not allowed to attend the stadiumsa taboo broken in 2019 in a Iran-Cambodia where 3,500 women attended, under pressure from FIFA.
In January 2022, for the second time in four decades, around 2,000 female fans were allowed to attend a football match in Tehran. Iran against Iraq.
Since then, the Iranian authorities have allowed the attendance of a limited number of women in some soccer games in the country.
Source: La Verdad
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