Belligerent backdrop to tournament tests Fifa’s ‘football unites the world’ slogan Iran will present a major challenge to Fifa’s “football unites the world” slogan on Monday by becoming the first country in World Cup history to compete on the soil of a host nation with which it is at war . The n...
Source: [Guardian World](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/12/iran-first-play-war-world-cup-fifa)