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Iran Goalkeeper Suspended Six Months for Wearing SpongeBob SquarePants Trousers
« on: June 10, 2016, 03:22:09 pm »
Iran Goalkeeper Suspended Six Months for Wearing SpongeBob SquarePants Trousers

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-goalkeeper-suspended-six-months-wearing-spongebob-squarepants-trousers/

An Iranian goalkeeper who once represented Iran’s national soccer team at the World Cup has been suspended for six months after a picture surfaced online showing him wearing yellow pants that authorities described as SpongeBob SquarePants trousers.

The photo of Sosha Makani, 29, was initially posted on social media May 6 before a game for Tehran’s professional Persepolis club. A committee charged with policing the morality of Iran’s football federation imposed the suspension because of his clothing, the Guardian reports.

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Re: Iran Goalkeeper Suspended Six Months for Wearing SpongeBob SquarePants Trousers
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2016, 07:35:50 pm »
Quote from: don-o on June 10, 2016, 03:22:09 pm
Iran Goalkeeper Suspended Six Months for Wearing SpongeBob SquarePants Trousers

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-goalkeeper-suspended-six-months-wearing-spongebob-squarepants-trousers/

An Iranian goalkeeper who once represented Iran’s national soccer team at the World Cup has been suspended for six months after a picture surfaced online showing him wearing yellow pants that authorities described as SpongeBob SquarePants trousers.

The photo of Sosha Makani, 29, was initially posted on social media May 6 before a game for Tehran’s professional Persepolis club. A committee charged with policing the morality of Iran’s football federation imposed the suspension because of his clothing, the Guardian reports.

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Asinine reaction of the officials involved aside, it's stories like this one that remind us that there is a pretty good bit of shared humanity that crosses borders and cultures.  Hard not to like a guy who did this.
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Re: Iran Goalkeeper Suspended Six Months for Wearing SpongeBob SquarePants Trousers
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2016, 07:48:45 pm »
What in the hell is "immoral" about yellow mens' trousers?

Are they supposedly "too Western?"

I'm 68 yrs. old, and I wear a pair of slim, coral colored trousers, in part to tweak old farts who cringe from an old guy looking "cool."
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Re: Iran Goalkeeper Suspended Six Months for Wearing SpongeBob SquarePants Trousers
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2016, 07:56:47 pm »
Good thing this hadn't happened in Iraq about 12 years ago.  Uday Hussein would have thrown him off a roof.

He'd better keep winning....
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Re: Iran Goalkeeper Suspended Six Months for Wearing SpongeBob SquarePants Trousers
« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2016, 08:07:32 pm »
They'd throw him off a tall building for wearing these.


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