SINGAPORE (Reuters) - In a defiant gesture of support for his country's embattled leader, Syria's national football coach wore a t-shirt of a smiling President Bashar al-Assad to a news conference in Singapore on Monday - and said he wanted to keep politics out of sport.
The coach, Fajr Ibrahim, was flanked by midfielder Osama Omari and a Syria Football Association official, who also sported matching white Assad t-shirts ahead of a 2018 World Cup qualifying match in Singapore on Tuesday.
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