Iran soccer officials to meet FIFA in Zurich and plan for World Cup games in US

GENEVA: May 2 Iranian soccer officials are set to meet soon with FIFA in Zurich about their World Cup games in the United States in June.

Iran’s top soccer official Mehdi Taj said on Friday “we have many issues to discuss” on his return home from Canada where he failed to attend FIFA’s annual congress held on Thursday in Vancouver.

FIFA secretary general Mattias Grafström has invited an Iranian delegation to its headquarters by a May 20 deadline, a person familiar with the proposal told The Associated Press on Friday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing sensitivity of the issue.