Articles tagged with "team-melli"
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 15th, 2009
Team Melli had and the Iran U23 had a practice match yesterday which Team Melli won on goals by Mohsen Khalili, Ali Karimi, and Mohammadreza ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 14th, 2009
Remember all my ranting and raving about the incompetency of Iranian Football federation? Well here is more fuel that I could use for my fire! ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 13th, 2009
Speaking to reporters after their afternoon training session on Tuesday, Team Melli Manager Mansour Pourheidari assured reporters that all the proper precautions would be taken ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 12th, 2009
Hossein Kaebi must be in a funny position these days. The Team Melli defender played a few unhappy months for Coach Afshin Ghotbi in Perspolis ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 11th, 2009
According to Mehdi Taj, IRIFF Vice President, Head Coach Afshin Ghotbi has invited striker Ali Karimi and midfielders Pejman Nouri and Maziar Zare to Team ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 11th, 2009
Team Melli is scheduled to have a practice game against their U23 counterparts on Friday, Head Coach Afshin Ghotbi told the reporters. The match will ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 8th, 2009
Midfielder Anderanik Teimourian arrived in Tehran on Friday. He will join Team Melli training on Saturday.
Fulham FC midfielder who is on a loan to Barnsley ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | May 1st, 2009
Team Melli Coach Afshin Ghotbi released a list of 41 players who will be invited to the team’s training camp. Most notable are Ali Karimi ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Apr 28th, 2009
The now retired Iranian football’s hero of Melbourne Khodadad Azizi who has been getting his name in print for all the wrong reasons as of ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Apr 24th, 2009
Afshin Ghotbi had an interview with Jack Bell of The New York Times Soccer Blog three days before he was appointed the Head Coach of ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Apr 23rd, 2009
After another few weeks during which IRIFF did not miss a single opportunity to look like their incompetent selves, Afshin Ghotbi was given the job ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Dec 23rd, 2008
Team Melli will be heading to Spain for their training camp tomorrow. The boys will have a four hour layover in Frankfurt before heading for ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Dec 22nd, 2008
Team Melli midfielder Javad Nekounam scored in Osasuna’s win over Getafe. It may have been an unimportant fourth goal in a 5-1 rout, but it ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Dec 21st, 2008
The Basques decided that it was not wise to play against us, so the game was called off. No, it had nothing to do with ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Dec 20th, 2008
Team Melli won its second and last match in the Oman tournament. Playing for the third spot Team Melli defeated China 2-0. They were defeated ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Dec 18th, 2008
Team Melli lost its first match of the Oman tournament to Ecuador by a single goal. Both teams were fielding teams of second stringers, so ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Dec 14th, 2008
It appears that Erich Rothemoller has finally reached an agreement with the Iranian Football Federation to serve as one of Ali Daei’s assistants.
According to Rothemoller ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Dec 13th, 2008
The noble idea of organizing one of Team Melli’s training camps in Europe where a number of Team Melli members play their club football sounds ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Dec 12th, 2008
Team Melli assistant coach Houman Afazeli told reporters on Friday that the list of players for the Oman tournament will be announced at the end ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Dec 9th, 2008
Iran international midfielder Javad Nekounam scored a goal in his La Liga club’s 3-3 draw with Real Valladolid.
Osasuna had a 3 goal advantage at some ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Dec 7th, 2008
I was looking at FIFA rankings for November and notices that Iran has been ranked 44th in the world and 3rd in Asia. What bowl ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Dec 5th, 2008
Mohammad Mayelikohan, a former Team Melli head coach, and one of Ali Daei’s harshest detractors was hired yesterday to coach Saipa FC. This may not ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Dec 3rd, 2008
There are reports coming out of Iran that German coach Eric Rothemuller (I am not sure about the spelling) has been contacted, again, by the ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Dec 1st, 2008
It appears that yesterday’s news regarding Team Melli’s friendly match versus Catalonia Select was not entirely accurate.
Today Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) reported that ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Nov 30th, 2008
All of a sudden it is raining friendly matches for Team Melli! Ali Daei told reporters that Team Melli will play Catalonia select team while ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Nov 30th, 2008
Team Melli will participate in a four-team tournament in Oman. The list of participants is Romania, China, Oman, and Iran. The host city is the ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Nov 25th, 2008
Apparently Team Melli fans from all walks of life do not have much faith in their team making it to South Africa 2010.
Every day, Iranian ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Nov 23rd, 2008
According to a report published in one of the Iranian sports papers, Iran international midfielders Javad Nekounam and Masoud Shojaei, both of whom play for ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Nov 20th, 2008
Thanks to the AFC’s scheduling, Team Melli’s last three games come at them like whirlwind! In the span of a short 11 days, the boys ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Nov 19th, 2008
Iran drew with UAE with one goal a piece.
What can I say?! It was a very poor performance and we were lucky to come away ...
