(L-R) Syrian football association unknown official, head coach Fajr Ibrahim, and midfielder Osama Omari attend a news conference at a hotel in Singapore, November 16, 2015. In a defiant gesture of support for his country's embattled leader, Syria's national soccer 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. REUTERS/Patrick Johnston