Still I struggle to understand what all of this cyclical discussion has to do with TM. WE know for a fact every player posted their condolences, we know for a fact none of the players, staff, or indeed management personnel around TM/IFF were involved in shooting down the plane. We know that it was CANADA who invited IRAN to VANCOUVER for a friendly, when our federation even suggested having the match played in qatar or europe. We know for a fact they were going to make great money from it and have a great match. We know that 55k people bought tickets. We know canada gave the green light to Iran to organize another friendly on canadian soil, which they successfully did with ecuador.
What happened was basically unprecedented in terms of international friendlies that have been signed by two independent parties (who are free to negotiate without interference of their respective governments). Definitely not normal behavior to invite somebody for a friendly, waste their time, threaten to not give them visas, cancel their second friendly game by preventing any stadium from hosting it, and then tell them to leave the country within a few hours of the final whistle. This is supposedly normal behavior in a sporting environment?
The real reason CSA planned to invite Iran wasnt because they werent aware of plane downing, it was because they acted under the impression of sane people, that the tragedy had nothing to do with a bunch of football players (and yes, even their management + federation). Only when pressured by people who were threatening the players, a government desperate for any extra vote at future elections, and some potentially embarassing situations at passport control did they illegally pull out from the match. And all for what? More attention was not brought to the victims families, except for potentially negative attention and associations with lunatics like sideshow bob and saudi twitter shills (remember many of these victims were vatanparast people visiting Iran during their holidays, an act considered sacrilegeous by those that push for cancellinng the match), the Canadian FA suffered a huge financial loss and now will have to go through legal proceedings with IFF (fun!), and both teams WC preparations got fucked.
What happened was basically unprecedented in terms of international friendlies that have been signed by two independent parties (who are free to negotiate without interference of their respective governments). Definitely not normal behavior to invite somebody for a friendly, waste their time, threaten to not give them visas, cancel their second friendly game by preventing any stadium from hosting it, and then tell them to leave the country within a few hours of the final whistle. This is supposedly normal behavior in a sporting environment?
The real reason CSA planned to invite Iran wasnt because they werent aware of plane downing, it was because they acted under the impression of sane people, that the tragedy had nothing to do with a bunch of football players (and yes, even their management + federation). Only when pressured by people who were threatening the players, a government desperate for any extra vote at future elections, and some potentially embarassing situations at passport control did they illegally pull out from the match. And all for what? More attention was not brought to the victims families, except for potentially negative attention and associations with lunatics like sideshow bob and saudi twitter shills (remember many of these victims were vatanparast people visiting Iran during their holidays, an act considered sacrilegeous by those that push for cancellinng the match), the Canadian FA suffered a huge financial loss and now will have to go through legal proceedings with IFF (fun!), and both teams WC preparations got fucked.
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