According to Mehr reporter, Esteghlal and Persepolis teams met in a delayed match from the fifth week of the Premier League on Thursday, which ended in a 1-1 draw.
Despite the extensive media coverage inside the country, this match was not paid attention to in foreign media, and if it wasn’t for Gianni Infantino’s reaction to the presence of 3,000 female spectators in this match, it would probably have been completely overlooked by non-Iranian media.
Investigations of the media coverage of this match in prominent Arab and European media show that this match did not attract the media and not only did they not take any action to cover this match, but it remained hidden from their eyes.
It was only after Gianni Infantino’s reaction to the presence of Iranian women at Azadi Stadium that some media started covering his speech and talked about the 102nd Tehran derby.
Among the Arab-language media, the news sites “Kore”, “Al-Nahar” of Lebanon and “Egyptian Times” published Infantino’s speech, and in the European and American media, such media as “SoFoot” of France, “Gazzettadimantova” of Italy, Washington Post” of America, “Lofigaro” of France, “ansa” of Italy and “lanacion” of Argentina limited themselves to echoing Infantino’s words.
“Slaati” news site, in its coverage of this match, limited itself only to a picture of Mehdi Hashemi Nasab and his wounded face and wrote that he was injured by Persepolis fans.
In social networks, the situation was the same to some extent, and except for a prominent Saudi journalist, this meeting did not have a special reflection on social networks.
Saudi journalist “Nawaf Al-Asiwi” published a picture of Mehdi Hashemi Nasab with a wounded face and wrote: Esteghlal’s assistant coach was injured in the eye area due to stones thrown by Persepolis fans. Of course, he had announced this match before the match and covered the result of the match.
Of course, the information about Esteghlal’s coach’s injury in some media was not true, because after this match, Hashemi Nasab said about his eyebrow wound that he was injured in the scene of happiness after the goal, when he collided with his team’s players.