Articles tagged with "team-melli"
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 16th, 2006
Iran may play a friendly with Tunisia. This according to Tunisian Football Federation (FTF) officials, who said they are in negotiations with a couple of ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 16th, 2006
Ali Karimi is in Tehran for the Iranian New Year holidays. Yesterday he stopped by IRIFF office and chatted about his recovery process with IRIFF ...
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 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
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 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 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 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: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 6th, 2006
One of the many cool things about a site like World Cup Blog is that we have people from all over the world writing about ...
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: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 4th, 2006
Iran midfielder Ali Karimi sustained an ankle injury on Saturday that should keep him out of action for six to eight weeks. Karimi fell ...
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 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: Ecuador World Cup Team Blog by Trent | Mar 1st, 2006
Hmm. Does anyone here want to advance to the knockout stage? Hard to say since all four Group A teams lost in international ...
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: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Mar 1st, 2006
Just because our eyes are bloodshot from staring at the 15 games we are watching simultaneously today doesn't mean that we don't have the vision ...
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
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 ...
