A FIFA medical officer on Tuesday rejected media reports that Iran had broken rules by fielding women footballers, winners of a recent Asian championship, who were actually men.

Days after Iran triumphed at the inaugural Asian Women’s Futsal Championship in Malaysia, reports emerged that eight of the Iranian team were male.
In violation of FIFA rules, the players either had yet to complete a sex change or had suffered from sexual development disorders, Britain’s Daily Telegraph reported, citing Iranian sources.

A report by an Iranian state television website said the women players had the physical strength of men and some had “male inclinations”.
An official for FIFA rejected the claims of rule breaking, though she indicated some players had previously suffered medical conditions that affected their appearance.

“There are no gender concerns for women’s futsal and football teams,” Dr Zohreh Haratian, the governing body’s appointee in Iran, told Shargh daily.

“No scientific proof exists on these claims,” she said, noting that all the players had been checked.
According to the rules, any players participating in overseas matches, should first go through gender verification by FIFA’s medical representative, Haratian explained.

“Only then the player will be permitted to play in Asian or global matches. FIFA will respond to such accusations by foreign media,” she said, naming Saudi Arabia’s Al-Arabia and Britain’s Sky News.
The allegations are not new, said Haratian, also the Head of Iran’s Football Medical Assessment and Rehabilitation Center.

“In the past, a few of our female football players were accused of being bisexual,” she continued, adding that in 2010, one player suffering “an inborn disease of adrenal glands” and looked liked a man but was actually a woman.

“When FIFA understood that their problem was inborn, it rejected the claims and issued permits for them to play in matches.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/iran-in-trouble-for-fielding-men-in-a-female-football-competition/

Lalasticlala

Smart Country, laughing.

In my country Nigeria, it is the opposite.

We have women pretending to be men. We have Korede, Denrele And A Host Of others.

My question is.

Wetin happen to the real women in the Country?

The manly face is obvious na....
Dem for come carry Chi girl replace
After all... All na for sporting

TTC (Third To comment)

Iran stealing by tricks since day immemorial,


Oya FIFA do the needful because food don ready

Iranu abasha
Iranu abasha

What
See free smooching for the guy on ooh!

probably they want to create a mixed kind of football. Hybrid soccer. Wait a minute how would the guy mark the girls on the pitch.

This news is very funny sha...imagine those men tapping current from the opposing team players anyhow.

Kai...If to say na me, I for just dey fall for the girls body anyhow...but my username no go stand sha.

Fifa should also sanction nigeria too...chichi igbo is a man

ISLAMIC COUNTRY ABI!

Read the Original Article, it say's that
the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, spiritual leader of the 1979 Islamic revolution passed this law

Gender change operations are legal in Iran according to a fatwa - or religious ruling -
pronounced by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, spiritual leader of the 1979 Islamic revolution.

8th Paragraph down

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/11903290/Eight-of-Irans-womens-football-team-are-men.html

senior team

Caster Semanya FC

So which of them are the men?

Are they all men?

Ndi guy

Three sixty music ng. Com

Lol... Nothing we no go hear

Lol

Okk

All I see here is PDP football team

Yess chichi Igbo comes to mind

Wetin concern Iran concern Naija?
This na the first time I see non Naija (or at least Africa) news hit frontpage for Nairaland.
Naija news don finish?

Lol smart iranians

Iran wey wise pass tortoise

The one in the number 10 jersey is definitely a man!

I thought their women are not allowed to play soccer.

The are always on Hijab.

Iran

nawa o

Na wah, all these ladies, I wonder if thing on their chest are fake.
just joking.