In a heart-stopping finish, and with VAR included, the United States defeated Iran and qualified

The American team snatched second place in the area from the Asian team before 42,127 spectators at the Al Thumama stadium, the scene of a confrontation with latent extra-soccer tensions in the previous days and registered in small behaviors during the pleasant night in Doha.

The crossing between the selected countries in diplomatic conflicts began to raise temperatures due to a gesture by the United States Soccer Federation (US Soccer), which made a publication on its official channels with the modified Iranian flag, without the symbol it represents. to Allah.

The Federation of Islamic Republic of Iran football (Ffiri) raised a sanction request to the FIFA understanding that action as a violation of the World Cup regulations.

The mistreatment felt by the Iranians had a new manifestation in the official press conference before the game, when a journalist called the attention of the American captain tyler adams for wrongly mentioning the name of the country and questioned him for belonging to a nation with problems of discrimination against the black community.

The members of the Islamic team have faced uncomfortable questions from the Western press about human rights in their country since their arrival in Qatar, especially regarding the freedom of women after the death of the young woman. Mahsa Amini.

The 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish girl died on September 16, three days after being arrested for violating the dress code of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which requires women to wear the veil.

The coach of Iran, the Portuguese Carlos Queirozreacted in full World Cup against a British BBC journalist, who asked him questions about all politicians. “Why don’t you ask (Gareth) Southgate (England coach) these same questions? Ask him about Afghanistan!“, he invited ironically.

Under this atmosphere of accusations, Iran and the United States They held their second World Cup match on Tuesday, after the so-called “fraternity match” that the Islamists won 2-1 in France ’98.

The fans of one and the other selected coincided in the surroundings of the stadium without aggression but with the intention of overcoming each other’s breath. Searching each other with their eyes, raising their flags, they shouted at each other out loud: “Iran, Iran…”, “USA, USA”.

Inside the field, FIFA proposed an approach with a joint animation of representatives of each country and at the time of the anthems, a few faint whistles were barely heard to the Iranian verses in the context of a noisy environment.

The Islamic bias, by far, is the most deafening of this World Cup. The game was played under a similar buzz to the vuvuzelas at South Africa 2010, interrupted only when Chelsea midfielder Christian Pulisic scored the lone goal on 38 minutes.

Iranians and Americans were mostly separated in the stands, where the alternating location that characterizes the rest of the World Cup games was not noticed.

At the time the ball was rolling the United States was superior in the first half and got to the goal with a change of front from KcKennie that Serginho Dest placed in the center of the area with his head for the arrival of Pulisic at the mouth of the goal.

Iran reacted in the second half and had situations to reach a tie that would have allowed them to enter the top 16 of the World Cup, something that finally corresponded to the CONCACAF champions.

The footballers of the Iranian national team ended up furious and disconsolate for an alleged penalty by Carter Vickers against Taremi that the Spanish referee, Antonio Mateu Lahoz, did not sanction when the limit of added time was approaching.

The United States will play next Saturday against the Netherlands from 6:00 p.m. at the Khalifa International Stadium and Iran said goodbye to its sixth World Cup without meeting the goal of reaching the final round for the first time.