Information that goes around the world is the dismissal of the person who was going to become the first woman to referee a men's soccer match in the Persian country, so now all the referees will be men in the game of Tehran.
“It was a decision made by the Arbitration Committee, which eliminated all possible controversies,” said the president of the Organization of the Iranian Football League, Soheil Mahdi, the state agency IRNA said.
As was known a few days ago, Mahsa Ghorbani She was to be the first woman to be part of a refereeing team in a men's football match in Iran, although her role was to be limited to VAR, which had raised hopes that women would play a larger role in men's football in Iran.
What has been decided is that his replacement will be Saadolah Golmoradi in the VAR room in the match between Esteghlal and Persepolis, in the biggest derby in Iranian football and in all of Asia, two historic rivals.
After 40 years, theto Islamic Republic of Iran did not allow women to attend stadiums, a taboo that was broken in 2019 in an Iran-Cambodia to which 3,500 women attended, after pressure from the Fifa.
In January 2022, for the second time in four decades, some 2,000 female fans were allowed to attend the Iran-Vs. Iraq and Since that time, the Iranian authorities have allowed a limited number of women to attend some soccer matches in the country.
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