Iran-Uruguay, the World Cup warmup no one wanted you to see
Just a handful of Uruguay players' family members and some fans were allowed in after much discussion and debate, though a few Iran fans eventually were let in to watch their national team warm up for the World Cup. Courtesy of Mark Ogden / ESPNST. POLTEN, Austria -- It was supposed to be just a game, nothing more than a World Cup warm-up friendly between Iran and Uruguay in a sleepy town in rural Austria. Perhaps it'd be a perfect opportunity to scout an Iranian team that will face the United States and England in Group B at Qatar 2022 in two months' time. But the reality turned out to be something different.Instead of a regular international fixture, it became an event at the heart of the growing campaign of unrest in Iran surrounding women's rights, and a focal point for a young popu...