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Iran soccer official: Women's team Olympic dreams crushed

By REUTERS

JUNE 6, 2011 16:08

TEHRAN - Iran's dream of competing in the London 2012 Olympic women's soccer tournament have been crushed by an unexpected ruling that their Islamic dress broke FIFA rules, a football federation official in Tehran said on Monday.

Iran is complaining to the world soccer body after its women were banned from playing, moments before an Olympic qualifier against Jordan last week, due to their full-body strip that includes a head scarf.

The head of women's affairs at Iran's football federation told Reuters Iran had made changes to its women's kit after a FIFA ban last year and believed it had been given the approval of the world federation and of its president, Sepp Blatter.

"We made the required corrections and played a match afterwards," Farideh Shojaei told Reuters TV in an interview.

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