Iran's Rezaeian: "I don't know what our people did to deserve this"

Iranian international Ramin Rezaeian voiced his frustration after a draw denied his team a guaranteed spot in the knockout stages of the 2026 World Cup. Iran had a goal disallowed in added time following a VAR review, and now the Asian side must hope to be among the top eight third-placed teams to advance.

“I don’t know what to say. I don’t know why we have such bad luck, once, twice, three times, four, five times… I don’t know what our people did to deserve this. I hope we can still qualify so our citizens can feel better; they deserve more than this. We fought with all our might. It didn’t matter if we died tonight. We just wanted to make our people happy,” Rezaeian stated.