‘Our team is the most oppressed’: Iran coach hits out at Fifa and US over treatment

• Ghalenoei claims team told to ‘leave immediately’

• ‘We were supposed to stay here tonight to recover’

The Iran captain Mehdi Taremi, midfielder Mohammad Mohebi, and head coach Amir Ghalenoei hit out at Fifa and hinted at resentment toward the US government after being told they needed to leave Los Angeles immediately after Monday night’s 2-2 draw against New Zealand in the World Cup.

“Everything is like disaster, actually, for us,” said Taremi, who added that Fifa president, Gianni Infantino, visited the team in the dressing room and they expressed their concerns to him directly.