Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said her country had agreed to host Iran’s World Cup soccer team this summer after Washington decided it did not want the players to stay in the United States overnight.
“The United States doesn’t want the Iranian national team to stay overnight in the United States,” Sheinbaum told reporters on May 25.
She said a FIFA representative had asked, “Can they stay overnight in Mexico?”
“And we said, ‘Yes, no problem. We have no issue with that,’” she said.
“We have no reason to deny them the possibility of them staying in Mexico,” Sheinbaum said, before saying the details were being sorted out by Gabriela Cuevas, the Mexican representative to FIFA, and the tourism minister, Josefina Rodríguez Zamora….