Articles tagged with "Iran"
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 ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 8th, 2006
This is not about football, but since we have been hearing a lot about Iranian women and their struggle to get the right to attend ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 8th, 2006
There was a major blow delivered to Iranian women’s hope to attend sports events. This one came from the very top. Apparently Islamic Republic’s Supreme ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 8th, 2006
Iran U-17 will meet China on Monday while Iraq will face Japan in the second round of Tehran Youth Tournament.
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 7th, 2006
What do you think about making the goals bigger, using video technology during games, or even using sin bins (same as a penalty box in ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 7th, 2006
It makes feel just a little better knowing that it is not only Iranian Football Federation that cannot get its arms around a decent practice ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 7th, 2006
Hey Perspolis fans, I know there must be a whole bunch of you out there. Here are all the pictures that I could find from ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 7th, 2006
Iranian MP Amir-Reza Khadem told reporters that there are no security issues involving Team Melli’s trip to Germany. This only a few days after other ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 7th, 2006
Okay, call me a softy, but this story almost choked me up! It is about an American basketball player who has taken his trade to ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 7th, 2006
Now that Bush is “starting to understand how important the World Cup is” I want to make a proposal.
In order to resolve the issue ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 7th, 2006
Bob just posted a clip from making of my favorite Adidas commercial. I even liked that one! Especially I like the part with all the ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 7th, 2006
Perspolis FC made it to the final of Hazfi Cup by defeating Northern minnows Nojhan of Sari. Arie Haan's team will have a chance to ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 7th, 2006
My pal Luis Paulo of Portugal blog thinks all we are doing in the Iran camp is worrying about injuries and security arrangements. He could ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 7th, 2006
A few Iranian lawmakers attended Team Melli’s practice session and interrupted their training on Saturday. At some point the players sat around to listen to ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 6th, 2006
The semifinals of Iranian Hazfi Cup will be played tomorrow. Perspolis FC will face minnows Nojhan in Northern town of Sari, while Saba battery and ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 6th, 2006
As you know by now, Hamburg SV lost to Herta Berlin today. That in effect finished any outside chance they may have had to catch ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 6th, 2006
According to Sunday Times the pressure is building on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to stop Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from attending the games should he ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 6th, 2006
Team Melli’s 26 year-old midfielder will be leaving his Bundesliga club Kaiserslautern at the end of this season. This according to IRNA.
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 6th, 2006
Iran U-17 made it to the semis of the Tehran youth tournament despite a 2:1 loss to Saudi U-17. Iran's second tem (Iran B ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 6th, 2006
Some good news from the Team Melli’s walking wounded.
Ali Karimi told reporters that if his rehab goes according to the plan, he expects to be ...
