The Asian Football Confederation said Thursday an Iranian club team was at fault for displaying a statue of slain Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani during a match against a Saudi rival. Players from Saudi club Al Ittihad refused to take the pitch for their AFC Champions League match last month against Iran's Sepahan after seeing the statue - the first public glitch in a surprise rapprochement between the two Middle East powers brokered by China in March. Sepahan "created an unsafe and unstable security environment within the Stadium which led to the cancellation of the Match," the AFC said in a ruling published on Thursday. The club "did not act in a poli
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