Another Suspension

This is getting passed the point of absurdity. The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has banned our defender Taghipour for SIX months, just ahead of our third place match against Bahrain, because of an incident that happend in the Asian CLUB championships half a year ago.

Amazingly, they announce the ban NOW, 6 months after the incident. More amazingly, the head of AFC disciplinary commitee is also a Bahraini. This is while we have two other players also suspended because of two red cards received utterly unfailry in the semi final against China (one was shown to an already benched player!!!). Most amazingly, this is happening while all suspensions have been cleared for CHINA and Japan, ahead of their final. I seriously hope for Iran's sake that the Iranian Federation withdraws from this joke of a tournament immediately.

There are rumors Iran might pull out of the AFC, but with this federation I don't see that happening. In any case, it will be interesting to see what will happen in the next few days.