Indonesia loses under-20 World Cup in dispute over Israel’s participation via IrishTimesSport
Wed Mar 29 2023 - 21:02
Indonesia was stripped of a world championship soccer tournament on Wednesday amid protests over the participation of Israel’s team. Indonesia had been scheduled to host the Under-20 World Cup, an event for the best young players in the world, from May 20th to June 11th. Israel has qualified for the tournament for the first time, but that result proved to be fraught in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, which has no diplomatic ties with Israel.
Some government officials and protesters had called on the Israeli team to be excluded, leading to the cancellation of the tournament’s draw, which had been set for Friday. On Monday, conservative Muslim protesters marched in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, carrying signs and chanting slogans objecting to Israel’s presence in the event.
After a meeting between the leaders of soccer’s global governing body, Fifa, and the Indonesian soccer federation on Wednesday in Qatar failed to resolve the dispute, Fifa said in a statement that Indonesia would not host the event “due to the current circumstances.”
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