Sporting officers in Egypt and Iran, two international locations the place homosexuality is severely punished, protested after being drawn to play the “Delight Match” in Seattle throughout subsequent 12 months’s World Cup.
Seattle’s plan to designate the June 26 sport as a “Delight Match” — because it coincides with the town’s Delight weekend — was made earlier than final week’s World Cup draw on the Kennedy Middle, which sorted the 48 groups taking part in within the World Cup into 12 teams of 4. Egypt and Iran had been drawn Friday to be in Group G, and FIFA allotted the timings and areas of video games Saturday.
