By allowing shameful treatment of Iran national soccer team, FIFA set awful precedent. Now future hosts could do the same to any team, USMNT included.

DANIEL MATTHEWS IN SEATTLE: The team's campaign has been dogged by travel and visa restrictions as well as weeks of mudslinging between Iranian officials and the US authorities.

Iran’s head coach, Amir Ghalenoei, has said Fifa’s president, Gianni Infantino, must ‘stand up’ to the US