Baghdad Informed sources said: “Contacts are continuing with the Costa Rican national team to persuade it to play a friendly match with the Iraqi team, after the government provided a private plane to transport the team to Basra.”
According to the sources, the approval of the Prime Minister was obtained to allocate a private plane to transport the Costa Rican team from Kuwait to Basra and to avoid the knot that caused the team’s return to Kuwait.
It is noteworthy that the Costa Rican national team arrived late last night by land from Kuwait to the border crossing in Basra, and returned to Kuwait with the excuse of not to let their passports to be stamped by Iraqi border stamps.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency