Articles tagged with "Iran"
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 24th, 2006
Ali Karimi is baack! Well not really “back”, but back in Munich for rehab.
The wizard of Tehran is well on track to get back ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 24th, 2006
Apparently Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is fed up with divers and is calling for tougher penalties to punish diving.
I think that is a good ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 24th, 2006
Looks like former Brazil and Real coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo may have taken a lesson out of former Iran and Perspolis coach Ali Parvin.
Luxemburgo was said ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 23rd, 2006
Over the last two years there has been a debate over inviting foreign born Iranian footballers to national team camp. Midfielder Freydoon Zandi is one ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 23rd, 2006
Apparently football is of some interest to Iran’s controversial president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. A few weeks ago he paid a surprised visit to Team Melli camp ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 23rd, 2006
Iranian referee Masoud Moradi is amongst forty or so referees who are competing for the 30 available spots in Germany. I hope he is good ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 22nd, 2006
Saba Battery blew a one goal lead against Al Karama in Matchday two of the AFC Champions League. In my humble opinion this loss was ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 22nd, 2006
In their second AFC Champions League Group C match Foolad FC played a goalless draw with Al Ittihad of Syria.
Foolad now lead Group A with ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 22nd, 2006
Saba Battery were shocked by the Syrian side Al Karama in Tehran. Saba took a 1:0 lead on a goal by none other than Ali ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 22nd, 2006
Iran’s AFC Champions League representatives Saba Battery and Foolad both are still in the race for the Iranian Pro League title. However, with four games ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 21st, 2006
Got to love Iranian football officials! No one can ever give you a straight answer, or just when you think you got a straight answer ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 20th, 2006
Hello all you football fans around the world!
For those of you who may not know, today is the first day of the Iranian New ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 20th, 2006
Iran’s Brazilian Olympicvcoach, Rene Simoes, has called up 22 players for the Tunisia trip. Amongst the 22 are a number of Team Melli players such ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 18th, 2006
Iran and Hannover 96 striker Vahid hashemian scored the winning goal in Hannover’s Bundesliga face off against Cologne.
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 18th, 2006
Mehdi Mahdavikia’s team Hamburg SV won another one in the Bundesliga. Today they defeated Wolfsburg. Mehdi, however, had a weak game. He made number of ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 18th, 2006
Arie Haan won his first IPL match with Perspolis on Friday when they defeated Malavan of Anzali 3:1 in Round 26. What was more significant ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 17th, 2006
In the words of the baseball great Yogi Berra, “It’s deja vu all over again”.
The Black Stars and Team Melli game has been called off ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 17th, 2006
The man is like the Energizer Bunny I tell you. I am talking about Ali Daei. In today’s Iranian Pro League game against Shahid Ghandi ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 17th, 2006
Did you know that there are seven Brazilian footballers playing in the Iranian Pro League? There are a few Europeans too, and one of them ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 17th, 2006
Three years ago an Iranian first division club took an extraordinary step; it allowed a small group of female fans to attend a game in ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 16th, 2006
Iran may play a friendly with Tunisia. This according to Tunisian Football Federation (FTF) officials, who said they are in negotiations with a couple of ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 16th, 2006
Ali Karimi is in Tehran for the Iranian New Year holidays. Yesterday he stopped by IRIFF office and chatted about his recovery process with IRIFF ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by Emir Dedic | Mar 16th, 2006
Since Romania was not interested any more for the friendly match in May, Croatian FA (HNS) quickly found an opponent to fill in the gap ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 16th, 2006
Great news Team Melli fans! Do not worry about lack of preparation or Branko Ivankovic’s questionable team selection! Don’t even concern yourselves with Ali Daei’s ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 16th, 2006
Hee, hee, hee!!!
Apparently Iran, along with USA and England, are security risk for the German organizers!
Okay, it may be for different reasons but nonetheless I ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 16th, 2006
Check this out fans! Iran may be playing Croatia. According to reports a friendly is in the making for May 28.
This would be a great ...
Posted on: Tunisia World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Mar 15th, 2006
The Carthage Eagles are hoping to arrange three friendlies in the two weeks prior to the World Cup. Tunisian Football Federation officials have said ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 15th, 2006
Every World Cup there's players who seemingly come out of nowhere to capture the world's attention. They may not be household names before the ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 14th, 2006
Our friend Pasha in the Angola blog has put up an interesting question, “What would be success?” for Angola in Germany this summer.
Excellent question for ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 14th, 2006
Iran and Ghana friendly is scheduled for March 29, however, no venue has been announced.
Come to Tehran guys, it’ll be fun.
By the way, what ...
