The AFC said the game had been cancelled due to ‘unanticipated and unforeseen circumstances’.
ISFAHAN: Al-Ittihad’s Asian Champions League match with Iran’s Sepahan was called off on Monday after the Saudi team refused to leave their dressing-room due to a statue of an assassinated Iranian general being placed at the entrance to the pitch.
The Asian Football Confederation said the game had been “cancelled due to unanticipated and unforeseen circumstances”. Photographs from the stadium published on social media showed a bust of Soleimani had been placed at the entrance to the pitch and would have been in full view of the players as they exited the tunnel.
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