OMG, this is hilarious! Okay, so the FIFA (Federation International Football Association) has rules for what participating team members can wear on the field during international soccer competitions. So last year, Iran was informed that their women's team could NOT participate if they wore the head scarves that Iranians require all women to wear. So, the Iranians, those geniuses of the Persian Gulf, decided to make some alterations to the women's team uniforms and came up with this hooded type of storm trooper type of outfit for their apparently slovenly women and so in their first scheduled game, the FIFA officials looked at these uniforms out of Battlestar Gallactica and immediately disqualified the Iranians in their game versus Jordan. I might want to note that the islamic women from Jordan actually could let the world see their hair and ears.
I mean, seriously...look at the photo above and at the Telegraph (actually, the photo at the Telegraph is more ludicrous but I can't grab it off the page) and tell me if that isn't hysterical?! I can only imagine some 84 year old mullah sitting at his desk in Tehran sketching out something that will hide those damn sexually alluring golden hair rays of their women's team members and coming up with that...showing it to Achmed, his buddy on the mullah council, and asking ...."so, Achmed, what do you think? Pretty snazzy, huh?"
Iran to complain to FIFA after women's team banned for Islamic kit
The Iranian team were banned from a match against Jordan shortly before the game was due to start in Amman on Friday, Iran's state-run Press TV reported.
Jordan were awarded a 3-0 win in the second-round qualifying match.
"We will file a complaint to FIFA against the official in charge of the matches," Ali Kafashian, head of Iran's football federation, was quoted as saying by the student news agency ISNA.
The row over what Iran's women players are allowed to wear has been brewing for more than a year. FIFA banned the team last April due to their plan to wear headscarves, in accordance with the Islamic dress code which requires all women in Iran to cover their hair in public.
The Iranian federation made changes to the kit and believed it had reached an acceptable compromise.
A photograph on Press TV's website showed players at Friday's match in white tracksuits and head coverings that concealed their hair and ears, kneeling around the Iranian flag on the pitch.
"Although it has been said in FIFA'S regulations that no country can play with Islamic dress, we had necessary negotiations with FIFA officials," Kafashian said.
"Unfortunately, I do not know why the Bahraini official in charge of the matches refused to let our team play."
News reports in Iran stressed the Bahraini nationality of the official. Iran has been a vocal critic of the Sunni Muslim Bahraini monarchy's violent crackdown on democracy protesters from the Shi'ite majority in recent months.
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