Iran announced a friendly match with the Russian national team

The Iranian national football team will play a friendly match with the Russian team this fall. This was announced on August 10 by the President of the Iranian Football Federation, Mehdi Taj.

"The Russian national team will also be the opponent of the national team," he said, quoted by Iran's IRIB Television and Radio company on the Telegram channel.

In addition, Iranian football players will play with two European teams and one Asian team, which, as Taj clarified, participated in the World Cup.

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Maxim Mitrofanov, General Secretary of the Russian Football Union, said on June 26 that a friendly match between the US and Russian national teams was being discussed. He added that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also participated in these negotiations at a certain stage.