Articles tagged with "asia"
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, ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 1st, 2006
Iran had a good first half against Costa Rica. They took a three goal lead in the first 45, but the Ticos fought back and ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 1st, 2006
Iran coach Branko Ivankovic told reporters that although Mexico and Portugal are favorites to move on from group D, Iran is well capable of beating ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 1st, 2006
Looks like Iran’s president Mahmood Ahmadinejad has discovered Team Melli’s Public Relations potential.
Yesterday he paid a surprise visit to the team’s practice session and kicked ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 1st, 2006
Iran’s likely lineup for tomorrow’s game is as follows:
Ebrahim Mirzapour (GK)
Hossein Kaebi – Yahya Golmohammadi – Mohammad Nosrati – Sattar Zare
Anderanik Teymourian* – Ali Karimi ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 1st, 2006
It appears that neither Mehdi Mahdavikia nor Rahman Rezaei will be playing tomorrow against Costa Rica.
These two happened to be the two most consistent ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 27th, 2006
Iranian Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported today that according to Kicker Magazine Team Melli are “optimistic” about moving on to the second round.
This is all ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 27th, 2006
The coaches of other countries have been announcing their squads for their Wednesday friendly matches. No such luck with Iran as Branko Ivankovic is still ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 27th, 2006
According to the Iranian Football Federation (IRIFF) site Mexico’s coach Ricardo Lavolpe has assigned two analysts to watch Iran’s matches and report back to him. ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 27th, 2006
Arash Borhani is one of Iranian football’s many young guns. At twenty three Borhani has all the tools and potential to develop into a ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 24th, 2006
Hossein Kaebi is a little guy in stature, but he has the heart of a giant. He was only 17 when he had his ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 23rd, 2006
I used to be one of Ali Daei’s biggest fans, but I am getting increasingly annoyed with him stubbornly refusing to retire from international ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 22nd, 2006
In the opening game of their AFC Asian Cup 2007 qualifying campaign Iran defeated Chinese Taipei by the score of 4:0 in Tehran’s Azadi stadium.
Coach ...
