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加利福尼亚州英格尔伍德电——伊朗国家男子足球队主教练表示，在周一晚间与新西兰队以2比2战平，开启这场充满政治色彩的世界杯赛事仅数小时后，球队就被勒令离开美国，返回位于墨西哥的训练基地。
主教练阿米尔·加莱诺埃未透露是谁下令伊朗队提前撤离。原计划球队将在加利福尼亚州过夜，以最大限度地完成揭幕战后的常规恢复流程，但赛后球队被告知所有人必须立即登机，前往140英里外的蒂华纳。
“他们甚至没给我们恢复的时间，”加莱诺埃通过翻译说道，“今天比赛结束后，他们对我们说：‘你们必须立刻离开。’对我们来说，恢复时间非常重要，但我们却被告知登机返回蒂华纳的营地，我们对此感到非常困扰。”
自2月28日美国和以色列对伊朗发动战争以来，伊朗的世界杯备战计划一直陷入动荡。尽管国际足联拒绝了伊朗将其三场小组赛迁出美国的请求，伊朗最终还是决定参赛。
6月15日，2026年国际足联世界杯G组伊朗对阵新西兰的比赛在加利福尼亚州英格尔伍德的洛杉矶体育场举行，伊朗队20号球员沙赫里亚尔·莫汉卢与新西兰队16号球员芬恩·瑟曼争抢足球。两队最终2比2战平。卡尔·安德森 / Icon Sportswire via 盖蒂图片社
伊朗队长迈赫迪·塔雷米表示，周日从蒂华纳前往洛杉矶地区本应是一段很短的旅程，但球队却经历了5小时的行程和安检。
“说实话，我们不知道为什么要让我们返程，”加莱诺埃说，“我觉得这非常奇怪。看起来其他人在为我们做计划，我们的决策是在别处做出的。我们本应在赛前两天抵达，本打算今晚留在这里恢复，明天午餐时间再返回。我们完全不知道原因。”
“我认为我们队或许是世界杯上受压迫最深的球队。”
塔雷米和加莱诺埃都抱怨球队缺少多名重要工作人员——包括伊朗足球联合会主席、教练辅助人员和媒体官员——这些人都被美国拒签，加剧了球队的备战困难。
“我们现在必须立刻离开洛杉矶，这对我们不利，”比赛结束一小时后塔雷米说道，“我认为国际足联本应给予我们更多帮助……实际上，对我们来说一切都像一场灾难。”
加莱诺埃表示，尽管比赛环境温和，但仍有多名球员在比赛中出现抽筋症状。他将这一伤病问题归咎于伊朗面临的官僚和外交障碍导致备战时间不足。
“赛前我就说过，因为旅途原因我们没有时间调整状态，”加莱诺埃说，“我们很多球员都抽筋了，这就是我们不得不换人换人的原因。我们换人并非战术原因，而是因为伤病和抽筋。我们的技术团队将在周二对他们进行检查，但他们延误了我们的抵达时间，还强迫我们提前返程，不给我们恢复时间，这让情况变得更加困难。”
伊朗队小组赛剩余的两场比赛分别是周日在英格尔伍德对阵比利时，以及下周前往西雅图对阵埃及。
伊朗队在世界杯揭幕战中与一支在国际足联排名低65位的球队战平，结果令人失望。但这支伊朗队在这场精彩的比赛中两度落后后追平比分，穆罕默德·莫赫比在第64分钟打入扳平进球，当时洛杉矶附近的索菲体育场内有大量支持伊朗的观众——这里拥有伊朗境外最多的伊朗裔人口。
这场比赛的热烈氛围在一定程度上源于态度矛盾的侨民球迷群体：他们对伊朗现政府仍感到愤怒，但在很大程度上依然支持“伊朗国家队”。
6月15日，2026年国际足联世界杯G组伊朗对阵新西兰的比赛在加利福尼亚州英格尔伍德的洛杉矶体育场举行，伊朗球迷在球队2比2战平后为球队鼓掌。马修·蔡尔兹 / 路透社
尽管有数百名伊朗裔美国人在场外抗议伊朗政府，许多侨民球迷在国歌奏响时发出嘘声并背对球场。尽管国际足联试图阻止，但观众席上仍出现了数十个狮子和太阳徽章——这是1979年之前伊朗官方国旗的核心图案，还有更多球迷身着印有狮子和太阳徽章的T恤。
但比赛开始后，绝大多数观众都大声支持伊朗球员。
“比赛的90分钟里，现场氛围棒极了，”塔雷米说，“对我们来说就像在主场一样。”
伊利亚·贾斯特在上下半场各打入一球，帮助新西兰队取得领先，但伊朗队两次扳平比分，打入两粒精彩进球：包括拉明·礼萨扬在半场前用脚外侧破门后，莫赫比接其完美传球头球得分。
莫赫比进球后似乎做出了持枪射击的动作，引发了网上批评。他还做出了如今广为流传的“我血管里有冰”的庆祝手势——该手势由洛杉矶湖人队新秀丹吉洛·拉塞尔十年前在索菲体育场10英里外首创，随后他对着欢呼的球迷比出了心形手势。
“住在洛杉矶的伊朗人营造了绝佳的氛围，”莫赫比说，“那个庆祝动作是我临场想到的，我对着所有球迷做出了这个动作——”他对着自己的手臂做了一个动作——“就像这样。”
终场哨响后，两队球员拥抱握手，至少交换了一件球衣。当加莱诺埃独自坐在教练席上时，他的球员们聚集在一起，绕场一周向 remaining 数千名挥舞国旗、高声欢呼的球迷致谢。
从纸面实力来看，伊朗队接下来的两场比赛更加艰难，这可能会让球队首次晋级世界杯小组赛阶段的希望蒙上阴影。揭幕战后，伊朗、比利时、埃及和新西兰队均积1分。
“我们面临更多障碍，但我们不会因此放弃尽全力比赛，”加莱诺埃说，“我认为今天的比赛是迄今为止世界杯上最精彩的比赛之一，我想场内场外的球迷都享受了这场比赛。”
Iran World Cup team coach says it was ordered out of U.S. right after first match
2026-06-16T01:33:16-0400 / CBS News
Inglewood, Calif. — The coach of Iran’s World Cup team said it was ordered to leave the U.S. and return to its training base in Mexico only a few hours after opening its politically charged tournament by playing to a 2-2 draw with New Zealand on Monday night.
Coach Amir Ghalenoei didn’t say who ordered the Iranians to leave earlier than planned. The team had expected to spend the night in California to maximize the normal recovery process after its opening game, only to be told after the match that everyone must immediately get on a plane for the 140-mile trip back to Tijuana.
“They didn’t even give us time to recover,” Ghalenoei said through an interpreter. “After the game today, they said to us, ‘You have to leave immediately.’ It’s very important for us to have time for recovery, (but) we are asked to get on a plane and return to our camp in Tijuana, and we are really troubled by that.”
The Iranians’ World Cup cycle has been in upheaval since the U.S. and Israel began a war against Iran on Feb. 28. Iran ultimately decided to compete even after FIFA rejected its request to move its three group-stage matches out of the U.S.
Shahriyar Moghanlou, #20 of Iran and Finn Surman, #16 of New Zealand, compete for the ball during the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group G match between Iran and New Zealand on June 15, 2026 at Los Angeles Stadium in Inglewood, Calif. The teams played to a 2-2 draw. Karl Anderson / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
Iran captain Mehdi Taremi said the team endured five hours of travel and security checks during what’s normally a very short trip from Tijuana to the Los Angeles area on Sunday.
“We don’t know why they are returning us, to be honest,” Ghalenoei said. “I think it’s very strange. It seems like others are doing the planning for us. The decision-making for us is being made elsewhere. We were supposed to come two nights before the game, and we were supposed to stay tonight to recover and return tomorrow at lunchtime. We have no idea why.
“I think our team is perhaps the most oppressed in the World Cup.”
Taremi and Ghalenoei both decried the team’s lack of many important staff members – including the president of Iran’s football federation, coaching support personnel and media officials – who were denied visas by the U.S, amplifying the team’s difficult preparations.
“We have to leave Los Angeles right now, and it’s not good for us,” Taremi said about an hour after the match. “I think FIFA have to help us more than this. … Everything is like a disaster, actually, for us.”
Ghalenoei said several players developed cramps during the game, which was played in mild conditions. He attributed the injury problems to the lack of proper preparation time caused by Iran’s bureaucratic and diplomatic obstacles.
“Before the game, I said we haven’t had time to adjust because of the travel,” Ghalenoei said. “Many of our players, they had cramps, and that’s why we had to substitute them. So it wasn’t for technical reasons that we made substitutions. It was because of the injury and because of the cramp. They will be examined (Tuesday) by our technical staff, but the fact they delayed our arrivals and they are forcing us to go back early without time for recovery, they are making the situation more difficult.”
The Iranians’ remaining two games in group stage play are against Belgium in Inglewood on Sunday, followed by a trip to Seattle to face Egypt next week.
Iran opened its World Cup with a disappointing draw to a team ranked 65 places lower in FIFA’s rankings. Yet the Iranians also overcame two deficits in an exciting match, getting the tying goal from Mohammad Mohebi in the 64th minute before a strongly pro-Iranian crowd at SoFi Stadium near Los Angeles, which has the world’s largest population of Iranians outside Iran.
The game was played in a crackling atmosphere created in part by a conflicted, diasporic fan base which remains furious with the current Iranian government but is still largely supportive of Team Melli.
Iran fans applaud for their team after a 2-2 draw between Iran and New Zealand in the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group G match between Iran and New Zealand on June 15, 2026 at Los Angeles Stadium in Inglewood, Calif. Matthew Childs / REUTERS
While several hundred Iranian Americans protested the government outside, many fans from the diaspora jeered and turned their backs on the field during the national anthem. Dozens of Lion and Sun emblems – the centerpiece of Iran’s official flag before 1979 – were displayed in the crowd despite FIFA’s attempts to keep them away, while dozens more fans wore the Lion and Sun emblems on T-shirts.
Yet the vast majority of the crowd vocally supported the Iranian players once the match kicked off.
“It was an incredible atmosphere in the game, all 90 minutes,” Taremi said. “It was like at home for us.”
Elijah Just scored early in each half for New Zealand, but Iran responded twice with a pair of beautiful goals, including Mohebi’s header off a perfect pass from Ramin Rezaeian, who had scored off the side of his boot in the first half.
Mohebi appeared to mime the shooting of a gun after his goal, setting off criticism online. He also made the now-ubiquitous “ice in my veins” gesture originated 10 miles away from SoFi Stadium by Los Angeles Lakers rookie D’Angelo Russell a decade ago, before he held up a heart to the cheering fans.
“The Iranians who live in Los Angeles, they make a great atmosphere,” Mohebi said. “That celebration, it comes in the mind, and I did like this” – motioning to his arm – “for all the fans. Just a celebration.”
Players from both teams embraced and shook hands after the final whistle, with at least one jersey swap occurring. While Ghalenoei sat by himself in the dugout, his players gathered together and walked around the field applauding their remaining thousands of flag-shaking, roaring fans.
Both of Iran’s next two matches are tougher on paper, endangering their chances of getting out of the World Cup group stage for the first time. Iran, Belgium, Egypt and New Zealand have one point apiece after the opening round.
“We’re facing more hurdles, but we’re not going to let that stop us from doing our best,” Ghalenoei said. “I think today was one of the best games in the World Cup so far, and I think the fans really enjoyed it inside the stadium and outside the stadium.”