Team Melli’s Sport Manager walked out of the pre-match coordination meeting that was conducted today prior to the Guam-Iran match today as a token of protest against what he called “un-sportsmanship conduct” by Guam.

Afshin Peyrovani was representing Iran side in the tradition pre-match meetings in attendance of the match commissioner from AFC and FIFA. The commissioner intervention with Peyrovani to return back to complete the formalities was succesfull after the official Guam Federation delegates apologized to Peyrovani in person.

Peyrovani’s strong complaints was due to the absence of number of players and officials of Iran due to non granting of Visa. All the Iranian players who are playing in Russia and two other technical crew have been denied visa, while Andranik Teymourian, the team Captain had to miss the Turkmenistan game to get his visa in Doha!

Peyrovani considered that as un-sportsmanship act by Guam and  in contradiction to FIFA’s Fair Play.

“Our coach cannot field its full strength team because of acts beyond sportsmanship, The denial of Guam to grant them visas to enter the country and compete fair and square, is unacceptable and pure injustice.” Peyrovani complained.

The commissioner of the match , however , pleaded with Iran’s representative who reluctantly returned to the meeting after personal apologies from the Guam FA representatives.