Breaking news: Iraq football players ask asylum in Australia

This is reported right now on sotali­raq, and I can’t con­firm it yet.

Reli­able source con­firmed that a group of Iraqi foot­ball play­ers refused to travel back with the Iraqi del­e­ga­tion to Dubai this morn­ing despite inten­sive con­tacts with the play­ers to back down from their decision

Note that the Iraqi Olympic team will meet Lebanon foot­ball team on Wednesday.