the issue of the match cancellation was welcomed by the palestinians argentina culture talking some paoli was unhappy about playing a friendly in israel because of logistical reasons so close to the world cup now the game is cancelled but for very different reasons. the match was originally switched from haifa to jerusalem angering palestinians the city has become the focus of controversy after u.s. president donald trump recognized it as israel's capital palestinians were further incensed because the jerusalem stadium is in the neighborhood of a former palestinian village having burned the argentinian flag protesters frightened to burn replica jerseys of argentina star messi. well he will not under any circumstances agree to this match going ahead we've started a campaign against the argentinian football association in which we will target. a tweet from the argentinian embassy in israel confirm the cancellation of the game and said the threats against messi prompted the solidarity of his team mates and fears of a playing the friendly toward israel prime minister binyamin netanyahu had ho

argentina coach jorge some paoli was unhappy about playing a friendly in israel so close to the worldcup for logistical reasons now the game has been cancelled over a very different issue the match was originally switched from haifa to jerusalem angering palestinians a city has become the focus of controversy as the u.s. president donald trump recognize it as israel's capital. palestinians were further incensed because the jerusalem stadium is in the neighborhood of a former palestinian village having burned the argentinian flag protesters threatened to burn replica jerseys of argentina star messi. the actions the threats that have taken place have led us to decide not to travel my responsibility as president of the argentinian f.a. is to look after the health physical integrity and safety of the entire delegation . israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu had hoped the game against one of the world cup favorites would be good publicity for israel who did not qualify for the tournament in russia but moving the match to jerusalem has backfired israel's football chief says his organiza

spain is not helping their chances argentina is another sort of in a matic team they brought in some paoli to coach them toward the end of their qualifying campaign he got them over the line just barely through south american qualifying that is another team that i wouldn't be shocked if they go out of the group stage i would be shocked if they win the tournament beyond that i mean robert levin dosti is an interesting one he is playing for a team that seeded in poland some people think wrongly seeded but he's never really put a big dent in an international tournament i would be very excited to see him do that as many goals he scored in the women's league. we'll have to wait and see and i'm i'm usually curious about breakout stars but we'll talk about that in our next target in progress but thank you so very much for now and everyone to bring up to speed on with some of the other stories making news around the world. argentina's lower house of congress has narrowly passed a bill to legalize abortion in the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy following an all night debate one hundred twenty nin

nigeria coupled with iceland failing to defeat croatia now if iceland do beat croatia then georgetown paoli side can still qualify.

nigeria coupled with iceland failing to defeat croatia now if iceland do beat croatia then georgetown paoli side can still qualify if they beat one chariot by two more goals than iceland when their game isn't seen on iceland of course when and finish with identical records now of their fate will be decided by something entirely different this is even precedent does not make it a discipline you recalls of all things and then the drawing of lot as far as i'm aware that really hasn't happened in any major recent told of a sudden not not at all a loss to moral pirates last summer probably argentina picked up three yellow cards often have none protesting the fair play award that perhaps the creation of course as we said qualified they will be when is just a point against boston to side effect of a pressure of moderation and now by things nigeria will qualify with the win i have an argentine a point would be enough if iceland do not beat croatia so let's take it as it is going to. do but with us here we should get some tables are going to speak shortly now in the modern pm game if argentina and t

think he has a lot on his mind with this game now there are rumors that the coach a whole gay son paoli has lost control of the dressing room players have resulted in fact and will be picking the team then south this however has been denied by javier mascherano who gave out don no goal scorer last time argentina won the world cup in one thousand nine hundred sixty says the players don't have the balls to much press pressure on messi and too much emphasis on results and not playing football the argentina way and of course you know argentina argentinians they have such proud memories of you know that that that goal that you know you've been called the most impressive goal ever in the hands of god gold so if you're in the pressure as a team and of course the swan song for missy i mean when all of this is considered by many analysts. for the world cup the next one will be in. the mid thirty's for two players that. you know how are. it's could be very hard for them to have another shot to make an impact but as you said so far. about twelve minutes in now and iceland. of course playing pretty

argentina probably could have used against croatia but if he tweeted respect for argentina disaster some paoli in reference to argentina's coach was under intense pressure right now and the match was a hot topic on social media i want to show you this right now it's our heat map and on the night words like argentina oh it's not there right now but hopefully it'll come your way croatia and the hashtag a r g c or oh there you can see it on your screen lit up of the heat map you can see it there. son i will be back with more sport in the eight hundred g.m.t. hour remember you can join our conversation hashtag a.j. news good you can also tweet me directly at peta under school stimac but i'll see you again later for now it's back to you peter thank you we will see you back in the news hours on al-jazeera before we go let me just tell you some of the comments are coming to us here at the news grid on the trump immigration story a big heated debate going on online i'll just tell you one comment i've just got right now on our facebook feed don't force children to cry and separate them from parents any

reports of the training ground fight between a cup of the senior players even rumors that the coach paoli could be fired before this game kicks off he is still in charge for the time being when he took over the team about a year ago we had a fantastic reputation he had success with chile where it was a top or america was doing well with severe in the spanish league but really he struggled to find a starting eleven that works for him with argentina we've had two games at this world cup and two vastly different formations during his thirteen games in charge. fifty nine different players which just hints at just how uncertain he's been normally such a steady hand when he's put in charge of the team he does have lean or messi can messi pull it off one more time for his country it was quite disturbing to see him before that game against croatia they did the national anthem in the cameras pan down the argentina team they got so messy iraq he had his head in his hands before the game even kicked off and he was a pretty remote figure during that game and you do wonder now having led this team to