{"id":172081,"date":"2026-06-22T13:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/172081\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T13:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:41:07","slug":"iraq-face-experience-challenge-against-france-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/172081\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq face experience challenge against France – Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shafaq News- Baghdad\/ Washington<\/p>\n

Iraqi Football Association President Younis Mahmoud stated
\non Monday that lack of experience and individual mistakes remain Iraq’s biggest
\nchallenges ahead of their crucial World Cup clash against France.<\/p>\n

Mahmoud urged the team to avoid the errors that
\nemerged in earlier matches, noting that experience often makes the difference
\nin major tournaments.<\/p>\n

Concerns have also emerged over the scheduled kickoff
\nof the Group I encounter. French broadcaster RMC reported that the match in
\nPhiladelphia<\/a> could be delayed until 02:00 a.m. Baghdad time because of adverse
\nweather conditions in the host city. The network forecast temperatures of
\naround 33 degrees Celsius, accompanied by heavy rain and thunderstorms that
\ncould affect the schedule.<\/p>\n

The match is pivotal to Iraq’s hopes of reaching the
\nknockout stage after they opened their campaign with a 4-1 defeat to Norway.
\nFrance began the tournament with a 3-1 victory over Senegal.<\/p>\n

At a pre-match press conference on Sunday, Iraq head
\ncoach Graham Arnold expressed<\/a> confidence in his side despite France’s pedigree.
\n\u201cWe have never faced a team the size of France, but the atmosphere is very good.
\nWe know the power of the French team and the high-level players they have, but
\nour players have enough confidence to take on this challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-06-22T13:21:41+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad\/ Washington Iraqi Football Association President Younis Mahmoud…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[3095,152,382,94,53048,51246],"class_list":["post-172081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-2026-world-cup","tag-breaking","tag-france","tag-iraq","tag-iraq-face-experience-challenge-against-france","tag-match"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116794050722232494","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}