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Told he can't enter the United States

Sent back home accused of having links with

Suspected terror organizations. We have Mexico having to change their training. Sorry Iran having to change their training base here to

Mexico we have

Fans and journalists from a number of countries who aren't able to attend this World Cup because of travel bans or visa

Restrictions you yourself have said in the past

How important it is to have freedom of movement at a global event like this you've said how inclusive it is how welcoming

It is as well. Are you embarrassed therefore by what actually has come to pass and have you do you have to accept that?

You've lost some control of your own tournament here

Thanks for your from BBC BBC

You know in

2035 I

Think we hope the Women's World Cup will be in the UK, right?

still needs to be a decision, but looks like

Would you find it normal that

FIFA

Would dictate to the British government who to let in the country and who not to let in the country. I

Don't know maybe

Maybe you find it normal

I

Would like personally

On the other side the reality of the matter is that in every country there are governments

Try to get into the UK into Germany into Switzerland

Without a visa try to get a visa if you are for certain guy. It's not easy. That's what I want to say

It's not easy when you have 300,000 accredited people

majority of which from outside

Of the US to process them to vet them. You don't know unfortunately our world is you know a very

Aggressive world and security goes above everything and and and

and you need to

Respect the decisions which are taken and when I say to chill I don't mean to chill and do nothing I

mean

To trust us that we are working behind the scenes

We are trying to understand and there are things we can know things we cannot know things

We are told things we are not told and we always try to make the situation as

as positive as

possible and to find

solutions sometime we manage

other times not you know I think it has already been

successful to

To bring Iran to play in in America. I don't know who would have managed to do that

and

Of course everyone here believes is the right thing to do

But you know again, we don't live on the moon

We live on the on planet Earth and you have to deal with different situations. We try to do our best

We try to do our best

And I hope we'll have some good news

Gentlemen the front row