June 29 – Iran’s captain Mehdi Taremi labelled the World Cup “a disaster”, criticising FIFA and its president Gianni Infantino before his team’s exit from the tournament.
The Iranians came within a whisker of progressing to the knockout stages: they smashed the woodwork and had a goal ruled out in injury time in their final group game against Egypt which if they had gone in would have qualified them in second place. They then held a spot as one of the best third placed group finishers with Algeria’s 3-2 lead against Austria but lost their spot when the Alpine nation dramatically drew level with Algeria through a 96th-minute header by Sasa Kalajdzic.
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