Jamshid Taghizadeh | InsideOjodu https://www.insideojodu.com ...conecting the community Mon, 26 Aug 2019 08:50:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.10 http://www.insideojodu.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/favicon.ico Jamshid Taghizadeh | InsideOjodu https://www.insideojodu.com 32 32 Iranian women can now go to stadium to watch men’s football https://www.insideojodu.com/iranian-women-can-now-go-to-stadium-to-watch-mens-football/ https://www.insideojodu.com/iranian-women-can-now-go-to-stadium-to-watch-mens-football/#respond Mon, 26 Aug 2019 08:50:31 +0000 https://www.insideojodu.com/?p=7003 After so much pressure from FIFA, women in Iran will be allowed to attend…

The post Iranian women can now go to stadium to watch men’s football first appeared on InsideOjodu.]]> After so much pressure from FIFA, women in Iran will be allowed to attend the men’s soccer World Cub qualifying match in the Islamic Republic in October.

Iranian women have been banned from stadiums when men’s teams are playing since the Islamic revolution in 1979.

FIFA wrote to the Iranian Football Federation in June asking it to provide a timeline toward women being able to buy tickets for the qualifiers, or face consequences.

IRNA deputy Sports Minister Jamshid Taghizadeh said “Women can go to Tehran’s Azadi stadium to watch the match between Iran’s national team and Cambodia in October for the Qatar World Cup qualifier,”

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