The Asian Football Confederation responded to the official complaint submitted by the Jordan Federation, questioning the gender of the Iran women's goalkeeper.

The Jordanian Football Association had called for an investigation to be opened to determine the gender of the goalkeeper, whether male or female.

The AFC responded to the Jordanian complaint quickly, stressing that the investigation proved that the Iranian player's gender is female.

It is noteworthy that the Iranian women's team qualified for the 2022 Asian Nations Championship, which will be held in India, after defeating its Jordanian counterpart in the decisive match on penalties.

The original time of the match, which was held in the Uzbek capital Tashkent, ended with a 0-0 draw, so the two teams decided on penalty kicks, in which the Iranian goalkeeper shone and led her team to qualify for the continental championship.

The history of Iran with questioning the gender of the players

Six years ago, Iranian media reported the names of 8 male players who represented their country's women's team in recent years.

After 8 years of controversy and the Iranian Football Federation rejected reports that there were 4 males in the women's national team, a source close to the Football Association said that 8 players, not 4, represented the Iranian women's team.

It is noteworthy that the talk about the presence of male players in the Iranian women's team dates back to 2008, when Mohammad Morteza Nejad, head of an Iranian football club, spoke about the presence of men in the team, but the Iranian Federation described these conversations at that time as "false."

In 2014, the British newspaper "Telegraph" published a report after the discovery of 4 men in the women's team, for the Iranian Football Federation to announce the expulsion of these players in a scandal reported by various international media.