Articles tagged with "Iran"
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 ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 14th, 2006
It seems like every foreign coach who works in Iran these days has an eye for the national team job. Poor Branko Ivankovic must have ...
Posted on: South Korea World Cup Team Blog by Johnny | Mar 14th, 2006
Fifa.com always has a few decent, neutral articles about upcoming games, and here's one regarding a quick run-down of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Japan, and ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 14th, 2006
Iranian Pro League’s 2003 champions Sepahan of Isfahan knocked the 2004 champions Pas out of the Cup competition in Penalty kicks. The match had ended ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 14th, 2006
This may be hard to believe for most of you out there, but Iran national defender Rahman Rezaei is getting some heat from Iranian Football ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 12th, 2006
Along with Korea and Japan, Iran has been one of the strongest football sides in Asia over the last few years.
For years Iran was considered ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 12th, 2006
Many of you may not know this, but Iranian women do participate in organized football, which makes their ban from football stadiums even more puzzling.
Anyhow, ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 11th, 2006
The world out there is that Iranian Football Federation is afraid of scheduling more friendly games because if they lose one or two they may ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 11th, 2006
My goodness! Now Ali Daei has a new goal set for himself. He wants to raise his total of international goals to 120 before the ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 11th, 2006
In his first game on Perspolis bench, Arie Haan watched the Reds play a goalless draw with their cross town rivals Esteghlal.
Perspolis looked rejuvenated, creative, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 10th, 2006
Spanning the blog to bring you the constant variety of posts...
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What would make Angola ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 10th, 2006
The Iranian contingent is near exiting Europe. The only team left with an Iranian footballer on its roster is Hamburg SV and they lost the ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 10th, 2006
It looks like Ghana may be next in the short line of Iran’s pre World Cup friendly matches. The choice makes sense because Team Melli ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 10th, 2006
Arie Haan is already flexing his muscles at his new club. The other day he tossed a player out for disobedience.
Good for him! It ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 9th, 2006
Iranian Football Federation is in negotiation with Uruguay and Argentina for a possible friendly. I would love to see an Iran and Argentina friendly, but ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 9th, 2006
You came here to read about the World Cup so here is some of today's hard hitting (sort of) news (sort of).
Togo or not Togo: ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 8th, 2006
What can I tell you? The guy is like the energizer bunny. He keeps on going and going and going, and ….
I am talking about ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 8th, 2006
Earlier today Foolad FC started their AFC Champions League quest with a victory over Group A rivals Al Qadisiya. In a later match, Iran’s other ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 8th, 2006
Inch by inch, day by day, second by second we move closer to the World Cup. With less than 100 days to go before ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 7th, 2006
In light of what happened in Tehran’s Azadi Stadium, a couple of friends of mine who happened to be big football fans put together an ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 6th, 2006
Arie Haan has finally arrived in Tehran to coach Perspolis FC.
Apparently the Dutchman was in for a rude awakening. After seeing the club’s practice ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 6th, 2006
One of the many cool things about a site like World Cup Blog is that we have people from all over the world writing about ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 6th, 2006
The margin between advancing far in the World Cup and an early exit is so slim that the loss of a key player or two ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 6th, 2006
I don’t know what the record for yellow cards in one single game is, but in a lower division game in Iran this Saturday the ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 5th, 2006
Midfielder Ali Karimi’s injury has been diagnosed as torn ligaments in his right ankle. He is expected to get back to action towards the end ...
