Articles tagged with "Iran"
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 16th, 2006
Bosnia & Herzegovina announced their provisional squad for Iran and South Korea friendly. At the press conference many of the questions were centered on the ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 16th, 2006
Coach Branko Ivankovic is focusing on making it to the knock out stage this summer, he told reporters. He singled out Masoud Shojaei of Saipa, ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 16th, 2006
Saba will meet Al Karama of Syria tomorrow in Matchday 6 of the AFC Champions League. A tie or victory will put Saba through to ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 16th, 2006
An official with the Iran Football Federation told reporters yesterday that Vahid Hashemian and Ali Karimi will be fully fit and ready to go come ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 16th, 2006
Team Melli played a friendly with FC Muesingen's on May 15 in Switzerland.
Here are some photos:
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Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | May 15th, 2006
Mere seconds after I came up with that snappy Axis of Slackers headline, Saudi Arabia and Iran shared their World Cup rosters with the rest ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 15th, 2006
Okay, it is a done deal! They just announced the World Cup squad. No surprises here, and most everyone should be happy with this list. ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 15th, 2006
After watching all those wonderful videos showing Brazilian footballers showcasing their amazing juggling skills with football as if it was attached to their feet with ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 15th, 2006
Iran Football Federation is scheduled to release the names of the World Cup Squad later today. Here is my prediction on who will be on ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 15th, 2006
Iran will attend a Beach Football tournament scheduled to take place in UAE at the end of May.
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | May 15th, 2006
We're sweating like crazy and our fingers are about to fall off as we try to keep track of all the World Cup roster announcements. ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 14th, 2006
Iran’s Futsal team returned home two days ago, after concluding their training camp in Lebanon during which they defeated the Lebanese twice. Today the federation ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 14th, 2006
This is a sad day for Iranian football. Footballer Reza Hassanzadeh died of injuries sustained in a car accident.
Hassanzadeh was on his way ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 14th, 2006
Team Melli was served a minor blow when midfielder Mojtaba Jabbari injured his knee during practice and will be forced to miss the World Cup. ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | May 14th, 2006
Portugal coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has some thoughts on the strength of the teams in Group D. "After Mexico, Angola is our 2nd strongest ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 12th, 2006
Team Melli played a second warm-up game in Switzerland against armature side FC Spiez and won 5:0.
Below are a few more recent photos from Switzerland ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 11th, 2006
Here is a news clip about Team Melli in Switzerland. It is in French and I don’t speak French! So if any of you out ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 11th, 2006
Since the inauguration of the Asian Futsal Championship, Iran has been the undisputed kings of Asian Futsal. Yesterday they defeated Lebanon 11:3. The game was ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | May 11th, 2006
We've presented you with our infallible predictions and we've showed you how they compare to Google's selections. Now it is time for you to ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | May 11th, 2006
The news is never pleasant at Hooliganwatch™ headquarters. This past week was an especially tiring one. There was talk of the growing east-west ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 11th, 2006
This is getting sickening now! A few EU lawmakers want to sign a letter addressed to FIFA in which they ask for banning of Iran ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 11th, 2006
Iran’s youth won the Tehran tournament by defeating neighbors Iraq in extra time.
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 10th, 2006
As we get closer to the World Cup more and more Team Melli songs are released. Here one that I saw in an Iranian discussion ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 9th, 2006
Here are a few Team Melli Photos in their Switzerland camp. Apparently they played a friendly game against SV Lyss on Tuesday May 9 ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 9th, 2006
A few of you may have read my story about Team Melli’s charismatic goalkeeper Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh. He guarded Iran’s goal against Germany and ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 9th, 2006
Okay, I think someone at Deutsche Presse-Agentur tried to get cute or something! I have combed the ISNA site and I have not seen an ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 9th, 2006
My friend Kaveh Mahjoob takes a close look at Mexico in an article written for footballmedia.net.
Kaveh has a lot of respect for Mexico, but ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | May 8th, 2006
Earlier today it was announced that Iran's Supreme Leader has put an end to that silly notion of allowing women to attend football matches in ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 8th, 2006
Let’s take a break from the bizarre and talk football. It appears that the friendly with Bosnia & Herzegovina has been confirmed.
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 8th, 2006
Guys, this is taking a more bizarre twist every day. Apparently now the “Sports arena attendance” issue is going beyond gender and it expands to ...
