According to Hamshahri Online , at the end of the match, many players from the Iranian team collapsed and cried. In contrast, the players from the Qatar team ran to the stands and celebrated happily. Too bitter with these images, 4 players including Ali Gholizadeh, Mehdi Taremi, Alireza Jahanbakhsh and Mohammad Mohebi ran to fight with the players of the Qatar team and provoked the fans present at Al Thumama stadium. Fortunately, the security forces intervened in time, bringing all the players of the Iranian team into the tunnel.
“After the match ended, coach Amir Ghalenoei stood in a corner, stunned, and then went into the dressing room. He seemed to have no emotion left when the Iranian team lost the match to Qatar. In contrast, Ali Gholizadeh, Mehdi Taremi, Alireza Jahanbakhsh and Mohammad Mohebi had shameful images. They fought and cursed the opposing fans. In fact, during the match, there were arguments, but the bad images appeared again at the end of the match. We lost both on and off the field. It was a shameful image. Fortunately, most of the media stopped broadcasting at that time,” Hamshahri Online described.
Striker Mehdi Taremi (white shirt) fights with Qatar fans
Meanwhile, Kooora revealed that the cause of the fight was because Qatari fans kept whistling and yelling at the Iranian team. Striker Mehdi Taremi went to the stands and asked them to be quiet. The number 9 striker of the Iranian team even wanted to climb up to the stands to cause trouble with Qatari fans.
Faced with criticism, Mehdi Taremi spoke out: "These are side issues. In football, there are wins and losses, we celebrate but we cannot disrespect our opponents. Many insulting words have continuously appeared, hurting us. Out of respect for all Iranian people as well as for my teammates, I had to react."
Chaos at Al Thumama Stadium
Qatar players also tried to stop Mehdi Taremi
Regarding this incident, Iran's Khabar Varzeshi website worried: "In contrast to the pride of the Qatar team in winning the match, the Iranian team's players left a bad image by fighting with fans. Fortunately, the security forces intervened in time, otherwise who knows what would have happened.
For now, the Iranian team has been eliminated from the 2023 Asian Cup. We lost in the semi-finals and missed out on the chance to win the championship. However, that pain could increase if the Asian Football Confederation decides to investigate the incident after the match. Additional penalties could come as each action of the Iranian players was recorded by the monitors. Perhaps the Iranian people understand the bitterness of losing, but those were spontaneous, shameful actions and should not have appeared.
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