Well done FIFA, it was about time. Good job

[BrankoWasTheBEST]

FIFA ban Iranian women footballers from wearing hijab in Youth Olympic Games

MNA - FIFA banned the Iranian women’s football team wearing hijab from participating in the inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG) which will be held from August 14 to 26 in Singapore.

FIFA at first invited the Iranian team to take part in the games but unexpectedly decided to forbid wearing hijab (Islamic covering) in the games.
President of Iran Football Federation Ali Kafashian wrote a request to the world football governing body to reconsider their decision.
 

He pointed out that due to religious beliefs the Iranian women team will participate in the competitions only if they are allowed to observe the Islamic dress code.
 
Altogether 170 countries are expected to participate in the 2010 Youth Summer Olympics. About 3,500 athletes and 875 accompanying persons are expected to participate in the games. Each country will send at least four athletes.

[BrankoWasTheBEST]

AFC - Thailand have replaced Iran in the inaugural Youth Olympic Games women’s football tournament this August in Singapore.

Iran were barred from the August 12-25, 2010 tournament because of a FIFA directive with regard to players’ equipment. As a result, Thailand were nominated to replace Iran.

FIFA decreed that the wearing of Islamic hijab was not in accordance with the laws of the game.

In a letter to the Iran Football Federation, FIFA General Secretary Jerome Valcke wrote: “…taking into consideration the clear position stated by the NOC of IR Iran, the FIFA Executive Committee had no choice but to take the decision that the IR Iran Football Federation will not be able to participate in the inaugural Youth Olympic Football Tournaments in Singapore.”

About 3,600 athletes aged between 14 and 18 will compete in 26 sports and cultural events

[Persian]

Branko jaan;

I disagree with you.  I wish I had time to explain why.  It is not Iranian women's problem, it is regime that is forcing them to wear hejab.

I agree with the following article on many of its good points:

Shame on FIFA and Sepp Blatter
The first-ever summer Youth Olympic Games will be held in Singapore from Oct. 12-25. Some 3,600 athletes, ages 14 to 18, will compete in 26 sports. Iran's girls' squad was to be among the six teams competing in the girls' soccer competition.... No longer.

Pierre Tristam, About.com
The tyrannical Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), an opaque college of cardinals that answers to its own conception of god as football, ruled that the Iranian girls may not play while wearing the hijab. Never mind that the version of the hijab the Iranian girls would wear is an unobtrusive head-covering that interferes neither with play nor with anyone's safety, FIFA's bogus concerns notwithstanding. The hijab as head-cover is no different than whatever jock-strap soccer players choose to wear, and I'm not aware of a FIFA regulation getting into players' shorts (yet). In other words it's not part of the uniform as much as it is a form of protection--in this case, protection from Iranian clerics' interpretation of concocted Islamic edicts. But the girls' squad, adolescents all, likely couldn't give a crud for anyone's edicts. They want to play. They won the right to play. The Olympics are all about a chance to play. And if ice speed-skaters can wear those goofy all-but-the-eyes type head-covers and Olympic swimmers can wear those goofier and vulgar ball-bearing suits (some of them as if made of ball-bearings), then who's to say that girls contending with their government's idiocies can't wear damn headscarves?

FIFA is who.

This is old, steer-trodden territory for the football politbureau. in 2007, an 11-year-old Muslim girl from Ottawa was thrown out of a soccer tournament for refusing to remove her head scarf during play. The International Football Association Board upheld the ejection.

FIFA being what it is, there is no appeal. So much for Fundamental Principle of Olympism #1 ("Blending sport with culture and education"), #2 ("to place sport at the service of the harmonious development of man, with a view to promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity"), #3 (the bringing together of the world's athletes at the great sports festival"), #4 ("Every individual must have the possibility of practising sport, without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship"), or #5 ("Any form of discrimination with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise is incompatible with belonging to the Olympic Movement").

For the record, Thailand took Iran's place in the competition. Iran's adult men did not qualify for this year's football World Cup in South Africa, where the Middle East will be represented, and even then barely, by just one team: Algeria.
 

[dashali]

agree with Persian jan...
not the ladies fault

however....If I were them...I would have just shaved my head....u know that in Islamic law...without hair, they do not need ROOSARI

as for the shorts.....trust me, if they wear it...many iranians will have a heart attack,,,,lol
u shall see what some people do, when they see....saghe pa 
aman az roon va gheyreh...dieghe melat ghash miekonan..
looooool
JK

[BrankoWasTheBEST]

I know its not the ladies fault but a stand must be made and decisions taken. By not allowing the women to take part they are pressurising the ISLAMIC dictators and ridiculing them at the same time. At the same time the women will also pressurise the ISLAMIC malakh khors in Iran to stop this idiotic practice.

[dashali]

u know what...
I'd say...we shall go harder..
women's should play with BIKINI now in Iran...
looooooooool

[BrankoWasTheBEST]

u know what...
I'd say...we shall go harder..
women's should play with BIKINI now in Iran...
looooooooool

Now you are making sense 

[BrankoWasTheBEST]

It seems the row has been resolved. Women can wear hats or caps that cover their hair but not their ears or neck looooooooooooooooooool
 

Iranian girls can compete in Singapore

[dashali]

u know...I was going to sugest that because everytime I go to Iran, I see a lot of tourist( ladies) with hats and not scarves....now FIFA got to that point as well...
u know those swimming hats are the best....I just hope the MULLAHS don't get HASHARI by seeing the NECK

PERSIAN GULF