FIFA dress code bars Iran girls from Youth Games (AP)

ZURICH (AP)—Iran’s girls’ soccer group was thrown out of the Youth Olympicsbecause FIFA manners forestall players from wearing an Islamic headscarf.

Thailand replaces Iran in the August tournament, the ruling physique of Asiansoccer pronounced on its Web site Monday.
The hijab scarf—worn by girls as well as women to observe Islamic skirt code—was not allowed under FIFA manners relating to on-field equipment, the AsianFootball Confederation said. Iran’s inhabitant Olympic cabinet had urgedsoccer’s international ruling physique as well as the International Olympic Committee toreview the ban.
FIFA cabinet member general Jerome Valcke rejected the Iranian Olympic panel’srequest in the letter to the inhabitant soccer federation. He pronounced the FIFAexecutive cabinet had “no preference though to take the decision.”
FIFA maintains which soccer’s international rulebook contains the territory onplayer equipment, stating which “basic mandatory apparatus must not have anypolitical, eremite or personal statements.”
The hijab emanate was initial examined in 2007 after an 11-year-old lady inCanada was prevented from wearing the single for reserve reasons.
FIFA’s rules-making arm, the International Football Association Board,declined to have an exception for eremite clothing.
Iran was to have taken part in the six-nation tournament for girls during theinaugural foe in Singapore on Aug. 12-25. About 3,600 athletes, ages 14to 18, will compete in twenty-six sports.
Thailand will represent Middle East opposite Turkey, Equatorial Guinea, Trinidad andTobago, Chile as well as Papua New Guinea.