Iraq requests the transfer of its meeting with Jordan to a neutral land after the “events of the Palestine match”

The Iraqi Football Association called for the transfer of its match with Jordan in the World Cup qualifiers, scheduled for next June, to a neutral stadium or its establishment without an audience, due to what it described as “the events that accompanied the Iraq and Palestine match in the Jordanian capital Amman” on Tuesday.

The Iraqi Federation said on Friday in a statement that it demanded the international and Asian federations to investigate “in the abuse and racist, racist and political chants by the present masses, which included direct threats to the Iraqi public, in addition to praising the figures condemned for genocide.”
The Iraqi Federation referred to “similar slogans in a previous match on the same stadium between the Jordan and Palestine teams (March 20) … in the image and sound included hostile, racist and political words …”.
Iraq lost in the deadly time against Palestine 1-2 at the Amman International Stadium, after it was advanced until the 88th minute, to occupy the third place in the second group, 4 points behind South Korea, the top and a point from the second Jordan and the Asian champion summer.
It is scheduled that the Jordan match and its guest, Iraq, will be held on the tenth of June in the last tenth round of the third round that the champion and runner -up of each group will qualify directly to the World Cup 2026 finals scheduled in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

“Fabricated” video

The Jordanian Federation expressed its regret for what was “circulated by some of the users of social media platforms and a number of pages of the publication of a video that suggests abusive chants of hatred between the Jordanian and Iraqi brotherly peoples.”
He added: “After verifying the aforementioned video and explaining its blessing, the federation expresses its dissatisfaction with the attempts of some misleading groups to stir up strife, intolerance and hatred among the sports fans, as the Federation enables all Jordanian football fans not to be drawn behind such attempts and abusive comments on any of the media and social media platforms, which do not represent the morals of Jordanians.”
The Jordanian Federation recalled: “What His Royal Highness Prince Ali bin Al Hussein, President of the Jordan Federation, made, of great efforts to lift the ban on Iraqi stadiums, by playing the first international matches at the Stadium of the Palm trunk in Basra, which brought our national team with the Mesopotamia in 2017.”
According to the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Al -Safadi confirmed during a telephone conversation with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Republic of Iraq, Dr. Fouad Hussein, that the video of the Palestine and Iraq match is “fabricated and false and that investigations are continuing to find out who was behind the broadcast of these lies and abuse.”
And spread through social media during the past few days, a video that caused a sensation of a group of the fans during the match that insults the Iraqis, which they claimed to publishers that during the Palestine and Iraq match.
The Palestine and Iraq match was held in Amman at the request of the Palestinian Federation, due to the inability to be held in the Palestinian territories in light of the current security situation.
While the relations between the Iraqi and Jordanian authorities are friendly, some Iraqis blame Jordanians and Palestinians for their support for the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who was admired in circles that he considers a pivotal figure in Arab and Palestinian issues. As for the majority of Iraqis, a quarter of a century of Saddam Hussein’s rule remains before the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, synonymous with repressive dictatorship.