Articles tagged with "group-d"
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: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 28th, 2006
Anybody else wish this game could be played right now? Man, am I excited to see the Palancas Negras in action against one of ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 27th, 2006
The gods are smiling brightly today on Angola with news that Pedro Emanuel has agreed to play for the Palancas Negras this summer. The ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 27th, 2006
Done with their Bundesliga games over the weekend Iran internationals are back in Tehran in preparation for the Costa Rica friendly.
Ali Karimi and Freydoon ...
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: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 27th, 2006
Angola midfielder Figueiredo will not be making the trip to South Korea for Wednesday's friendly. He was injured last week playing for second division ...
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: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 26th, 2006
A small paper in the UK called the Times offers this rather sparse preview of Angola and has the audacity to predict Angola won't make ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 26th, 2006
All indications from Iran are that the friendly with Costa Rica will be played on schedule on March 1. However, there are other signs indicating ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 25th, 2006
Andre has used his football talents to take himself to interesting parts of the world. The Angola midfielder has player for club teams in ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 24th, 2006
Angola fans, we are getting closer and closer to seeing Pedro Emanuel in our uniform this summer in Germany. The Porto defender said today ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 24th, 2006
Coach Goncalves has called up Jojó And Zé Augusto to take part in the March 1 friendly against South Korea in Seoul. The two ...
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 24th, 2006
The other day I read about the two Mexican defenders who were banned from the World Cup by the Mexican football federation for failing their ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 23rd, 2006
Chances are that unless you follow Angolan football closely or you are related to him, you probably haven't heard of Love Kabungula. Known simply ...
Posted on: Mexico World Cup Team Blog by Surge | Feb 23rd, 2006
Both of the biggest teams in Mexico will clash once more this Sunday
Chivas will face America in the Mexican derby, that has been on ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 23rd, 2006
Didn't the African Cup of Nations just end? Oh well, today we learned the draw for the qualifying rounds for the 2008 tournament, which ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 23rd, 2006
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! Rui Marques has been given the go ahead to play for Angola. The Leeds defender might even be in an Angolan uniform ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 23rd, 2006
As I first reported on this blog earlier this week (after reading it in Angola Press, mad props to Angola Press!), Angola coach Luis Oliveira ...
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 ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 22nd, 2006
I came across this interesting story on Pedro Mantorras and believe it or not it wasn't in Angola Press, but in a paper in New ...
Posted on: Portugal Euro 2008 Blog by Dan Lourenço | Feb 21st, 2006
It’s got to be intimidating to wear the number 7 shirt for Manchester United. To sport the same number worn over the years by ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 21st, 2006
After all the excitement of learning that Pedro Mantorras would be playing for Benefica in today's Champions League match against Liverpool there was a tremendous ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 21st, 2006
28 year old Ali Karimi is one of the most popular players amongst Iran’s fanatic football fans. They lovingly call him “The Wizard” for his ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 21st, 2006
It is hard to believe that Angola midfielder Gilberto is still only 24 years old. Born and raised with a football on his foot, ...
