Articles tagged with "Iran"
Posted on: Australia World Cup Team Blog by Pat | Jul 3rd, 2009
The Socceroos have rocketed into the top 20 in the latest FIFA rankings. A successful end to our World Cup campaign, including wins over Bahrain ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jun 23rd, 2009
Remember how six Iranian players wore green wristbands for the first half of the World Cup Qualifier vs South Korea recently? Well, apparently four of ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jun 18th, 2009
For yesterday's World Cup qualifier vs South Korea, six of the 11 Iran players took the field wearing green wristbands, almost certainly a sign of ...
Posted on: Saudi Arabia World Cup Team Blog by Fulanito | Apr 7th, 2009
Peseiro in Saudi critique
José Vítor dos Santos Peseiro the Portuguese who is now leading the Saudi National Team (head couch) towards South Africa 2010 ...
Posted on: Saudi Arabia World Cup Team Blog by Fulanito | Apr 4th, 2009
In this match held in Tehran, the Saudis played with high spirit winning the game by great come-back in ten minutes before game's end and ...
Posted on: Australia World Cup Team Blog by Pat | Feb 22nd, 2009
Not really sure how this slipped under my nose, but with the release of the latest FIFA rankings (almost two weeks ago...), the Socceroos have ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Nov 19th, 2008
Today's games: A dollop of Oceania, a dose of Asia, a lot of CONCACAF, and...San Marino vs. Czech Republic?
Yes, that's our token ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Nov 3rd, 2008
Our U19’s lost any hopes of advancing to the second round of the AFC U-19 Championship after their second loss in a row.
On Sunday our ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Oct 21st, 2008
The rookie head coach of Zob Ahan of Isfahan Mansour Ebrahimzadeh is proving himself to be quite a find these days. Mansourzadeh was the assistant ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Oct 20th, 2008
This may not be exactly a “do or die” situation for Afshin Ghotbi, but it is as close to it as it might get
The Iranian-American ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Oct 19th, 2008
Iranian football officials are a bunch of hypocrites! I am not suggesting that it may be any different elsewhere, but it is really bad in ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Oct 18th, 2008
Our youngsters did it! They have achieved what no other Iranian U16 has ever been able to do; they have climbed to the top of ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin | Oct 17th, 2008
I love Iran and Korea Republic encounters at any level! Both countries have a strong football pedigree; both play well no nonsense football; and both ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Oct 15th, 2008
Our U16 boys defeated UAE 3-0 to make it to the final of the Asian U16 championship. This is the first time since 2000 that ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin | Oct 11th, 2008
OK! As predicted the Brazilians remain invincible; no surprise there. But what surprised even most of us Iranian fans was how well our team fought ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin | Oct 9th, 2008
Something special just happened in the small world of Iranian Futsal. For the first time since the 1992 FIFA Futsal World Cup Iran’s team made ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Oct 9th, 2008
I opened a can of worms last week by posting a photo and pointing out that a particular footy crowd was entirely ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Sep 17th, 2008
Wow! Time flies when you’re having a good time!
First there were the Euros; then came the transfer season, and now we have all the domestic ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Sep 17th, 2008
Wow! Time flies when you’re having a good time!
First there were the Euros; then came the transfer season, and now we have all the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jul 22nd, 2008
"You sure Cantona said this would help us get chicks?"
"Yeah. 'Check out those flamingos if you don't believe me,' he ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jul 11th, 2008
We're down to the final ten Asian teams, and we're left with the usual suspects, a few surprises, and...Australia? Yes, Australia, competing with the ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 18th, 2008
How fast can you say “The Kings of Asia”?! Well that is exactly what Iran’s national Futsal team deservedly feels like they are.
Iran defeated Thailand ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin | May 18th, 2008
How fast can you say “The Kings of Asia”?! Well that is exactly what Iran’s national Futsal team deservedly feels like they are. Iran defeated ...
Posted on: Scotland World Cup Team Blog by Ian Rose | Mar 10th, 2008
Bad news for our reader Ali ... looks like this one's off, mate.
The proposed friendly between Scotland and Iran on May 28th looks to be ...
Posted on: Scotland World Cup Team Blog by Ian Rose | Mar 6th, 2008
In a move that is likely to cause even more whining from the Old Firm bosses, Scotland coach George Burley is considering a friendly on ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 6th, 2008
Now that the whole hoopla surrounding the Team Melli coach is settled, there is not much about Iranian football to talk about any more!
I must ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 4th, 2008
The news of Ali Daei’s appointment was received very positively by the usually critical and negative Iranian sports media.
The news got plenty of coverage outside of ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 3rd, 2008
Finger clickin' good links from World Cup Blog, The Offside and elsewhere.
Everything but the coach (Iran Blog)
Corner flags fight back! (Italy Blog)
Euro 2008 victory or ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 28th, 2008
New you can use from World Cup Blog, The Offside and elsewhere.
Welcome to our latest captain (Spain Blog)
Groundhog Day, again (Iran Blog)
When fire ants attack ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 27th, 2008
The twisty turny tale of who is going to be Iran's new coach (hopefully) twisted and turned towards some sort of conclusion today. Javier Clemente, ...
