Articles tagged with "team-melli"
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Nov 16th, 2008
If you asked me, I’d tell you that I think there are some people in Iranian football who are trying to set Head Coach Ali ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Nov 15th, 2008
The return of Karim Bagheri to the national team has stirred a lot of excitement in some circles and some skepticism in others. But the ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Nov 13th, 2008
With only six days to go to Team Melli’s qualifier against UAE, all looks good in the camp. Players are in good health and good ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Nov 11th, 2008
Perspolis forward Alireza Nikbakht-Vahedi was invited to Team Melli camp and was supposed to accompany the team to Doha for the friendly against Qatar over ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Nov 10th, 2008
No sooner had the IFF announced the friendly match against the Basque select team in January than the Iranian ambassador to Spain spoke against it!
Davoud ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Nov 9th, 2008
Team Melli defeated Qatar in their only scheduled friendly before their World Cup qualifier against UAE on November 19.
The match, which was played in Doha, ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Nov 9th, 2008
The hottest topics of conversation amongst Iranian football fans these days rotate around Ali Daei the Head Coach of the National Team.
Daei was the nation’s ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Nov 7th, 2008
Team Melli Coach Ali Daei somewhat surprised everyone by calling up 35 year old Perspolis midfielder Karim Bagheri for the Qatar friendly. Bagheri retired from the ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Nov 4th, 2008
The tentative friendly match between Team Melli and Oman is now officially called off. Apparently the two federations could not reach a mutually agreed upon ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Nov 3rd, 2008
Team Melli has had a long history of vulnerable and sometimes downright weak and porous defenses. However, their generally solid midfield and offense has usually ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Nov 3rd, 2008
Our U19’s lost any hopes of advancing to the second round of the AFC U-19 Championship after their second loss in a row.
On Sunday our ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Nov 1st, 2008
The picture for Team Melli’s trip to Spain’s Basque Country is slowly getting clearer.
The team will travel to Basque land at the end of December ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Oct 30th, 2008
It is as official as official can be with Iran Football Federation! Team Melli is going to meet Qatar on November 9 for a friendly ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Oct 29th, 2008
Earlier this week I’d talked about the confusion over Team Melli’s schedule for the next three months.
Coach Ali Daei had talked about a possible training ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Oct 28th, 2008
Jose Antonio Camacho is the new coach of La Liga side Osasuna, and he is promising to shakeup the team’s lineup in the hope of ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Oct 27th, 2008
Arash Borhani is a 28 year old striker who plays for Esteghlal of Tehran. He is currently leading the Iranian league in scoring with 9 ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Oct 25th, 2008
Folks, Nostradamus I am not, but can you say “prophecy”?!
Just as I predicate in my last post on this blog, there are already cracks in ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Oct 25th, 2008
Yesterday Team Melli coach Ali Daei told reporters about the upcoming schedule of the team.
According to Daei in January the team will travel to Spain ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Oct 22nd, 2008
This appears to be the season for kissing and making up in Iranian football! Over the course of the last couple of weeks a few ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Oct 19th, 2008
Iranian football officials are a bunch of hypocrites! I am not suggesting that it may be any different elsewhere, but it is really bad in ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Oct 18th, 2008
Our youngsters did it! They have achieved what no other Iranian U16 has ever been able to do; they have climbed to the top of ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin | Oct 17th, 2008
I love Iran and Korea Republic encounters at any level! Both countries have a strong football pedigree; both play well no nonsense football; and both ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin | Oct 17th, 2008
For those of you who visited us here during the 2006 World Cup may recall all the fun we had at the expense of then ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Oct 15th, 2008
Our U16 boys defeated UAE 3-0 to make it to the final of the Asian U16 championship. This is the first time since 2000 that ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Sep 17th, 2008
Wow! Time flies when you’re having a good time!
First there were the Euros; then came the transfer season, and now we have all the domestic ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Sep 17th, 2008
Wow! Time flies when you’re having a good time!
First there were the Euros; then came the transfer season, and now we have all the ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 6th, 2008
Now that the whole hoopla surrounding the Team Melli coach is settled, there is not much about Iranian football to talk about any more!
I must ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 4th, 2008
The news of Ali Daei’s appointment was received very positively by the usually critical and negative Iranian sports media.
The news got plenty of coverage outside of ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 27th, 2008
I know this is supposed to be Iran World Cup blog, but can I talk about my favorite club side, Barcelona?
Come on, give me ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 23rd, 2008
This morning IRIFF chief Ali Kaffashian had a powwow with all 15 Football Federation officials and they came out announcing that they have yet another ...
