Articles tagged with "asia"
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: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 2nd, 2008
The World Cup 2010 qualifying draw was not kind to China. In the first round of Asian qualifying China were drawn in Group Five alongside ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 27th, 2007
Strange things are afoot in Iranian football. Sepp Blatter recently threatened to tear up Iran's FIFA membership for failing to properly separate the football federation ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jun 9th, 2006
(I had originally posted this on January 13, 2006, but after reading some of the unfriendly trash talking that is going on, I decided to ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | May 23rd, 2006
You might have heard by now that the World Cup has only been won by teams from Europe and South America. With the tournament ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 6th, 2006
Bob asks everyone “Which Country do you want to Host a Future World Cup?”
I am sure there are many countries that can do a fine ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 2nd, 2006
Saba Battery face Qatar’s Al Gharafa in Matchday 5 of AFC Champions League tomorrow. They still have a good chance of making it and their ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Apr 12th, 2006
In this mornings Iranian papers I read that Foold FC who just lost their AFC Champions League match to Uzbek champs Pakhtakor will be flying ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Apr 12th, 2006
This was a bad day for the Iranian clubs in AFC Champions League.
First, Foolad FC, who won the Iranian Pro League title last year, crashed ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 27th, 2006
John Duerden of goal.com has written a nice piece about the coaches representing AFC in the World Cup. There is nothing new for the Asian ...
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 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 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
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 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
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
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
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: 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: 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 ...
