The Saudi Al Ittihad club did not play a scheduled match because a bust of late Gen. Qasem Soleimani, who commanded Iran's elite Quds Force, was present at the field.
A Saudi football team refused to play a match in Iran because of the presence of a statue of a slain Iranian general placed on the sideline, Saudi state media reported.
But the Saudi team did not take to the field because of a bust of Gen. Qasem Soleimani, who commanded Iran's elite Quds Force before he was killed in a US drone strike in neighbouring Iraq in January 2020, and other political banners, Saudi Arabia's Al Ekhbariya TV reported.
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