Iraq asks FIFA to change the stadium for its match with Syria

The head of the Iraqi Football Association, Adnan Darjal, demanded from the International Federation (FIFA) that the match between the national team and its Syrian counterpart, scheduled for the 29th of this month in the Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifiers, be transferred from the Emirates to a neutral stadium, in response to FIFA’s decision to transfer the Iraq-UAE match from the capital, Baghdad.

"After a meeting of the Federation's Board of Directors, we came out united with two decisions, the first is to file a complaint with the Cass Court against the decision to transfer the Iraq-UAE match to a neutral stadium, and we started our contacts with legal departments and the complaint will be officially submitted within (the next 48 hours). This step was won With the approval of the Iraqi Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kazemi.

He added, "The second decision is to ask the International Federation to transfer the Iraq-Syria match from the Emirates to another neutral stadium, similar to the decision to transfer the Iraq-UAE match. There must be transparency, the UAE team is a party to the third-place conflict, and the Syria match plays a major role in that conflict as long as Iraq and the UAE Syria is in one group.

The Asian Football Confederation announced on Saturday that the match between Iraq and the Emirates, scheduled for Thursday, will be moved to the Saudi capital, Riyadh, justifying this by "the recent events in Iraq and the broader shifts in global security in recent weeks. A reassessment of the security and safety situation in Iraq was conducted by the AFC and FIFA." .

The Iraqi team occupies the fifth place before last in the first group with five points from eight matches, while the UAE team occupies the third place with nine points, noting that the two groups meet in an Asian playoff, and the winner between them meets the fifth of South America in a global supplement.

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