Articles tagged with "asia"
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 ...
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: 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: 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: 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: 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 ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 5th, 2006
The news of Ali Karimi’s injury so shocked most of us Iranian football fans that we forgot all about the good performance of the other ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 5th, 2006
Coach Branko Ivankovic’s failour to build a strong bench may hurt Iran should Ali Karimi or any of the other starting 11 get injured before ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 4th, 2006
Iran were dealt a major blow today when star midfielder Ali Karimi was injured during the second half of the FC Bayern's Bundesliga match against ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 3rd, 2006
I am still pissed off about what happened to my countrywomen during the Costa Rica friendly outside of the stadium.
Maybe football fans all around the ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 2nd, 2006
The Good
Iran played a heck of a first half and won the game.
• A couple of the younger players got a chance to play.
• Ali Karimi, ...
