Articles tagged with "Asia"
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 6th, 2006
Last year one of the top Iranian Pro League teams fired its German coach. The translator who happened to be the son-in-law of the Technical ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 5th, 2006
Depending on which Tehran newspaper you would like to trust more, it looks like another foreign coach has packed up his stuff and left Iran ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 4th, 2006
Ali Karimi did not get any playing time in today’s Bayern Munich 1:0 victory over Bayer Leverkusen. This is the second game in a row ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 4th, 2006
Iran international Mehdi Mahdavikia who plays his club football for Hamburg SV of Bundesliga had an assist in today’s HSV victory against Armenia Bielefeld.
Mahdavikia, who ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 4th, 2006
It seems like every time the fans are ready to be count him out, he rises to fight another day. I am talking about Iran’s ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 3rd, 2006
One of the Iranian sports papers, Iran Varzeshi, ran an article the other day reporting that Iran international midfielder Javad Nekounam who plays for UAE’s ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 2nd, 2006
It is hard for most of us Iranian football fans to focus on football when every day we hear some new discouraging news about the ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 2nd, 2006
Iranian Football Federation (IRIFF) announced that the Costa Rican national will be traveling to Tehran for a friendly match with the Iranian national team on ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 1st, 2006
Angola is scheduled to play a friendly in Seoul against Korea Republic in preparation for this summer’s World Cup where they are in Group D ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 1st, 2006
After 20 games the top three goal scorers in the Iranian Pro League have scored 33 goals between them. Reza Enayati of Esteghlal FC has ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 1st, 2006
Okay I was wrong! It was not a rumor. Arie Haan did come to Tehran, and he did sign a coaching agreement with Perspolis FC. ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 31st, 2006
Ali Daei used to be the most prolific goal scorer in Iranian football. In his twenties and early thirties he scored goals with a dizzying ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 30th, 2006
More than ten years ago the Dutch football legend Arie Haan came to Iran to discuss the national team job. After touring Tehran’s football facilities ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 30th, 2006
A couple of Tehran sports dailies reported that the Iranian Football Federation has approached Czech Republic for a friendly. If true, this game will replaced ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 30th, 2006
Okay, once again back to my favorite subject, Iran’s friendly games, or rather lack there of, in preparation for the World Cup.
News out of ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 28th, 2006
Hamburg SV opened their second half of the season with a loss against Nuremberg in the German Bundesliga.
As some of you may know, Iran and ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 28th, 2006
There are only a few weeks left to the start of the AFC Champions League. Iran is represented by Saba Battery, a team based in ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 28th, 2006
Yesterday Iran defeated Germany in an international tournament with the final score of 1:0. One minor detail though, it was an Under-19 youth tournament.
Okay, ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 25th, 2006
The news out of Italy this week was that Rahman Rezaei, Iran international defender, who plays his football for Messina of Serie A has obtained ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 24th, 2006
Before you read on I must warn you that this is written by a very frustrated and angry football fan! I am so angry that ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 22nd, 2006
Apparently Dinamo Zagreb has shown interest in Iran and Pas FC defender Mohammad Nosrati. According to Pas president Zagreb officials have not directly contacted them ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 20th, 2006
Reading about the latest brouhaha involving England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson and the fake Sheik makes me feel somewhat, but not much, better about the insanity ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 19th, 2006
I have an Argentine friend whom I love dearly. We always poke fun at each other by singling out the oddities in our ethnic and ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 18th, 2006
Rumors out of Tehran via Germany earlier today suggested that Ukraine may be cancelling their friendly match with Iran scheduled for March 1.
Apparently Iranian ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 15th, 2006
Iran has a large pool of young talents who have the potential to be world class footballers. I dare to say that we may lead ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 14th, 2006
Maybe I am missing something here, but I honestly don’t get the politicians who are calling for a World Cup ban on Iran.
Don’t get ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 13th, 2006
There are less than 150 days, 147 to be precise, left to the World Cup and the Iranian Football Federation (IFF) does not seem to ...
