On Wednesday, the country’s sports minister, Ahmad Donyamali, told state television that the country’s team would not participate in the tournament in the U.S. “considering this corrupt regime has assassinated our leader,” according to the New York Times.
Good. The Untied States probably would have kidnapped the team
And after months of captivity deported them to a country the have no connection to.
Wanted to say something similar - that they would probably get interrogated and spend eternities in custody before getting dropped somewhere in central Africa