Tehran, Iran – Canada’s national men’s football team has withdrawn from a football match with Iran scheduled for June 5, after pressure from the Canadian government and the families of a passenger flight downed over Tehran in January 2020.
Canada Soccer, the footballing body that had organised the June 5 World Cup warm-up match, said on Thursday that the game was cancelled because “the untenable geopolitical situation of hosting Iran [had become] significantly divisive”.
