Articles tagged with "asia"
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 21st, 2006
Asian Cup qualifying Group B games will start tomorrow. Iran will have its first Asian Cup game against Chinese Taipei tomorrow. Taipei should not present ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 18th, 2006
Iran national team is like a right footed footballer; finesse and skill on the right side, weak control and awkwardness on the left.
On ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 17th, 2006
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 17th, 2006
I love watching Asian players play in European leagues. Not just Iranian, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and now Australians! Yes, Australians! Aussies are a member of ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 14th, 2006
Well, the way I look at it I might as well get my kicks from writing on this blog as long as the fun lasts. ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 14th, 2006
We can now safely close this chapter folks. Neither Romario nor Stefan Effenberg are joining Perspolis. It was probably all a fabrication by the often ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 14th, 2006
Rahman Rezaei is one of Iran’s unsung heroes. He has quietly been putting up one good performance after another playing in Italy’s Serie A, while ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 13th, 2006
Okay, my own brother called me to let me know that my original post could have been interpreted as an attack on Romario!
Guys, honest ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 13th, 2006
See, I told you Romario coming to Iran was going to create an international incident!
I have greatest respect and admiration for 40+ footballers, honest! ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 13th, 2006
On their official website, Iran Football Federation has announced that they will press charges against one of Tehran’s sports dailies unless they prove or retract ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 13th, 2006
You are not going to believe this! One of the Iranian news agencies reported that Romario, yes the former Brazil international, may be signing with ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 12th, 2006
Arie Haan and his assistant are set to take over Perspolis FC in about a week. Teo De Jong met with the club’s president to ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 12th, 2006
Javad Nekounam (Click here for Player Profile) played his first game for his new club Al Sharjah of UAE.
Al Sharjah were defeated 2:1 by ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 11th, 2006
One of the fun things for us football fans, especially those of us who have a couple of years up on the rest, is reminiscing. ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 11th, 2006
Vahid Hashemian played 75 minutes against Frankfort. Hannover won 1:0 on a goal by Yankov. Hashemian did not have an impressive game. He had one ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 11th, 2006
Mehdi Mahdavikia scored his fifth goal of this Bundesliga season to give Hamburg SV a 1:0 victory over Mainz.
The goal was vintage Mahdavikia. The right ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 11th, 2006
Mehdi Mahdavikia is having a banner season playing right back for Hamburg of Bundesliga, but Coach Branko Ivankovic of Iran insists on playing him in ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 11th, 2006
I can’t understand all the fuss over Sol Campbell’s disappearance. As a matter of fact I think there was nothing special about it!
In Iranian ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 10th, 2006
The news out of Germany is that Iranian football fans will be more closely scrutinized when they apply for visas. That was expected. That is ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 9th, 2006
A newspaper cartoonist in Denmark exercised his rights to freedom of speech, alas in bad taste, and many people felt insulted. To “get even” a ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 9th, 2006
Vahid Hashemian helped his side win the duel with Hamburg. He scored the second and the winning goal for Hannover 96 and a good looking ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 8th, 2006
A few months ago, the former Iran International Khodad Azizi was warming up with his team at the time for a first division game.
The field ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 8th, 2006
Today in Bundesliga two Iran internationals will face off when Hamburg takes the field against Hannover 96.
Mehdi Mahdavikia of Hamburg and Vahid Hashemian of Hannover ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 7th, 2006
Hey you Iranian fans out there, check this out!
You know about Trinidad and Tobago right? It is a small Island in the Caribbean. With 1.1 ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 7th, 2006
It seems like Iran midfielder Javad Nekounam may be staying in UAE after all, although not with his current club Al Wahda.
The new coach at ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 7th, 2006
Sometimes it seems to me as if some of the Iranian football officials, in certain clubs and the federation, are actively trying to get Iran ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 6th, 2006
Iranian Football Federation’s top officials met with Coach Branko Ivankovic last week to discuss their “plans for the national team”.
They do this every now ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 6th, 2006
Last year one of the top Iranian Pro League teams fired its German coach. The translator who happened to be the son-in-law of the Technical ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 5th, 2006
Depending on which Tehran newspaper you would like to trust more, it looks like another foreign coach has packed up his stuff and left Iran ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 4th, 2006
Ali Karimi did not get any playing time in today’s Bayern Munich 1:0 victory over Bayer Leverkusen. This is the second game in a row ...
