Gregg Berhalter, the American team’s coach, has apologized for the U.S. Soccer Federation’s decision to strip the emblem of the Islamic Republic from Iran’s flag.
DOHA, Qatar — The American and Iranian soccer teams are the only ones putting politics aside as the sides meet in a match to determine if either nation continues in this World Cup.
The State Department a month before that game called Iran the world’s “most active″ sponsor of terrorism, so nerves were frayed for both nations. And just a week ahead of kickoff, a French television station broadcast the 1991 film “Not Without My Daughter,″ a movie based on the true story of an American woman who escaped Iran with her daughter against the wishes of her Iranian husband.Iran won 2-1 but neither team advance to the knockout round.
But headed into one of the most politically charged matches — rematch in this case — in tournament history, the conversation was again not centered on winning or losing.
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