World Cup Soccer

The Euroleague has just finished and England lost to Italy in the end. I personally didn't watch it, but it brought me back to another point in time.

The 1970 FIFA World Cup was held in Mexico from 31 May to 21 June. It was the first World Cup tournament staged in North America, and the first held outside Europe and South America.

For the first time (and so far also the only time) the Israeli team qualified for this tournament.

Yemen Arab Republic, in honor of the competition, issued a series of stamps. In one issue and on two of the stamps, Yemen printed the names of the teams that qualified for the tournament. Israel was one of those teams.

 

 

Someone in Yemen noticed that Israel's name appears on the stamp !! The 1967 Arab League summit held on August 29 in Khartoum, defined that there would be no recognition of Israel. A big oopsie!

How to fix the bug? Simply delete the name of Israel. Therefore a black stripe, known as an overprint, was printed on the stamps to eliminate the "disgrace".