Iranian media grilled U.S. head coach Gregg Berhalter about U.S. Soccer’s alteration of the Iran flag in social media graphics at an extremely political and often absurd news conference on the eve of a crucial showdown between the two nations.
and forward Karim Ansarifard before and after their news conference on Monday afternoon. An hour later, they scolded Adams for pronouncing “Iran” incorrectly; they asked Berhalter why people with an Iranian passport can’t travel to the U.S; they asked him, through a translator, why he hadn’t told the U.S. government “to take away its military fleet from the Persian Gulf”; and they created an atmosphere unlike any that U.S. Soccer officials had ever seen.They accused Berhalter and U.S.
When he was corrected by a reporter on his pronunciation of Iran — “first of all, you say you support the Iranian people, but you're pronouncing our country's name wrong. Our country is named ee-RAHN, not I-RAN. Please, once and for all, let's get this clear” — he responded: “My apologies on the mispronunciation of your country.”
“if you take away the very sacred word of Allah from the country, it's an insult.” He then asked whether U.S. Soccer’s statement would be a disadvantage in Tuesday’s game, or whether it would “boost morale.”
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