Mehdi Taj, the president of Iranian Football Federation, was also present in the meeting between Hamid Sajjadi and Infantino.
Iranian national football team lost its first match against heavyweight England 6-2 in the 2022 World Cup on Monday.
Iran’s goalkeeper Aliraza Beiranvand – known as Beyro – was badly injured in the very first minutes of the game and the Iranian manager Carlos Queiroz was forced to substitute him with Hossein Hosseini. The substitution of Beyro came as a blow to the Iranian team at the beginning of the tournament.
Iran is scheduled to play its second game of the tournament against Wales on November 25. The United States is another team which has been pitted against Iran in Group B of the competition.
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