The option of hosting the Asian Nations Cup instead of Saudi Arabia

The insecurity in Saudi Arabia has caused disagreement among football experts until a new option to host the 2027 Asian Nations Cup instead of Saudi Arabia was proposed.

According to ambassador Arjan; "The Asian Nations Cup 2027 will be held according to the calendar", this is the strange statement today (Friday) of the local committee of the Asian Nations Cup after the possibility of postponing or canceling these competitions.

In the past 2 weeks, the Yemeni army has carried out 20 retaliatory missile attacks on Saudi Arabia, so that according to the report of the Australian sports website, Saudi Arabia has been called the most insecure country in the Persian Gulf.

The strange statement of the organizing committee of the Asian Nations Cup was issued after the more strange statements of Sheikh Salman, the president of the AFC.

The head of the Asian Football Confederation said yesterday: "We are in no rush to make a decision about the Asian Nations Cup, which is scheduled to be held next January in Saudi Arabia."

Saudi Arabia's strange statement comes at a time when the Six Kings Slam, which was scheduled to be held from October 21 to 24, was postponed to December 27 to 30 due to the insecurity in the past week. Also, the finals of FIFAe 2026, which were supposed to be held in Jeddah from October 16 to 25, have been postponed until further notice.

On the other hand, three matches from the ninth week of the Saudi Professional Football League have been moved to other dates. The sensitive meeting between Al-Ahly and Al-Nasr was canceled due to insecurity.

The Japan Times site writes that the statement of the local competition committee is "irresponsible" and "unacceptable" after the insecurity in the country.

South Korean ambassador Arjan Daly also accused Saudi Arabia of trying to "make the country's security situation look normal" and declared that the death of 12 people and the wounding of more than 300 people cannot be hidden.

The Asian Football Confederation has had a contradictory behavior in dealing with the hosting of countries in the field of security, because in the first attacks of the United States and the Zionist regime on Iran, it took away the hosting of sports matches from our country, and until now, more than several months have passed since the last attack of the United States on Tehran, it has denied the representatives of Iran from hosting the Elite League and Champions League matches.

Abdulrahman Al-Anzi, a Saudi football expert, says that the security situation in this country is temporary and will be resolved soon, and the Asian Nations Cup matches will be held on schedule according to the calendar.

But Lee Gunho, president of the South Korean Professional Football Players Association, says that the value of any tournament cannot be prioritized over the lives and safety of football players and fans, and if safety cannot be guaranteed, the tournament should be canceled.

Football experts and security experts consider the one-year postponement of the 2027 Asian Nations Cup to be the best option to solve this problem, but Craig Foster, the former midfielder of the Australian national team, says that if Australia's insecurity continues, he is ready to host the tournament instead of Saudi Arabia.