🔸Iran’s Under-23 football team, with a defeat against North Korea, misses out on qualification

🔸Iran’s Under-23 football team, with a defeat against North Korea’s football team, failed to advance to the next stage of the football competitions at the Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan, and was eliminated.

🔸Iran’s team, in its last match in the group stage held on Wednesday, 1 Mehr, lost to North Korea with a score of four to one.

🔸The team had previously beaten the United Arab Emirates, but drew against China. From this group, China and North Korea advanced to the next stage.

🔸After the Under-23 team was eliminated, the Iranian Football Federation, in a statement, criticized the team’s performance, apologized to football fans, and wrote that the team’s performance in the match against North Korea “is in no way justifiable.”

🔸This is the latest in a number of periods of failure for Iran’s Under-23 football team at the Asian Games. Iran’s Under-23 football team has also been missing qualification for the Olympic Games for years.