Iran’s World Cup manager exposes Mexican cartel theft story | World Cup 2026

While Iran’s soccer players are settling into their World Cup camp in Tijuana, Alireza Jahanbakhsh says he heard that the cartels have a crush on Iranians and revealed he met members of one of the gangs. The captain of Team Melli said that he and his friend were kidnapped during the last trip to this country but they were only freed when the masked people recognized them as Iranians.