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The real story behind our Omid elimination After the miserable showing by the whole Iranian team and staff, I was ready to rant about how pathetic our “stars” like Ansarifard, Afshin, Hajsafi, … performed and how they displayed a (lack of) quality seen only in back allies of provinces...

Foolad's Nowroozi Asia's best club goal scorer Foolad’s prolific striker, Reza Nowroozi has been named Asia’s top goal scorer (clubs) with 24 goals scored in a league’s season. Nowroozi’s name is on the 7th rank in the World’s best goal scorers’ list (compiled from the world’s top...

Omid Team begins its Olympic qualifying campaign http://directkicks.blogspot.com/2011/06/omid-team-begins-its-olympic-qualifying.html The roster for the upcoming Olympics qualifier against Iraq has been announced by the Omid team coaches and it looks quite a comprehensive list with...

Queiroz selects the roster for the Maldives game http://directkicks.blogspot.com/2011/06/queiroz-selects-roster-for-maldives.html The new Team Melli coach, Carlos Queiroz has announced his latest roster of players for an Austrian camp in Loipersdorf, prior to the Maldives game and I must say...

Zob Ahan in total disarray http://directkicks.blogspot.com/2011/06/first-it-was-news-of-departure-of.html First it was the news of departure of Khalatbari to a Qatari club, Al-Gharafa, which was bad enough for both Zob Ahan’s ambitions to do one better than last year’s runner-up...

No rest for the weary of Iran http://directkicks.blogspot.com/2011/06/amidst-internal-turmoil-and-personnel.html Amidst internal turmoil and personnel shuffles in both Esfahani teams, Iran two representatives have been paired against two tough opponents for their upcoming...

Persepolis has one hand on the cup The first leg of the cup final between two traditional powerhouses, Persepolis and Malavan was a cracker of a game and saw plenty of goals and action that lived up to its cup-final billing. Malavan, the guest team came out of the locker room...

IPL's top coaches and stars of the season As we finish the football season in Iran, with Persepolis taking on Malavan for the Hazfi cup and the rights to represent Iran in Asian Club Championship, a look back at some of the success stories of the season may seem fitting. The top...

Poll Question: HAS USING 4-2-3-1 FORMATION PAID DIVIDEND FOR IRAN'S TM IN GAMES WE WANTED TO WIN ? simple enough question. it is not "what SHOULD be in theory, or what we HOPE FOR, or what it is in some magazine or manual or what it is done in some european team, or ..." it is about &...

in aussie-iraq game, apparently some aussie fans were holding banners saying "We are here to Bang Kok" !!! true to form with these arrogant idiots! but the best thing is now, after their loss, the Thai papers can come up with plenty of head-lines. mine would be: "Koky" aussies got "Bang"-ed in...

The mark of a great man is how he faces adversity, deals with it and comes up a winner. We have many who fell by the way side when attacked with such ferocity that Ali Daei was. But we know the nature of him and his steel will keep him from crumbling and forces him to withstand and then defeat...

Should video replay “correct” refereeing mistakes? I understand the Fifa officials desperately trying to maintain tradition and resist change. But there are times & occasions where the injustice or “mistakes” are too vivid & detectable and their result, overwhelming and too consequential to...

LLLOOOLLL Only AFC can f**k up like this ; from AFC official website; "RIYADH: Abdullah Al Asta and Waleed Al Gizani scored as Saudi champions Al Shabab defeated Al Ain of UAE 1-0 on Wednesday to make sure that the race for a coveted quarterfinal spot in the AFC Champions League went down to...

news: بعد از تهديد مرفاوي ديدار تيم فوتبال استقلال تهران برابر پيكان لغو شد so what's next? some other 5 yr old girl from team X will want this & threatens "shrieking her lungs out" ! another spoilt little child from team Y will want that & threatens "major stomping of feet"! WTF ? is...

Just over 2 months left to the first Olympic qualifier, against very tough opponents consisting of Australia, Saudis and Jordan. To say this is a tough group is an understatement. Almost 2 months, for a team that does not exist, is not enough by any means. I say the team doesn’t exist...

Plz continue here : http://forums.iransportspress.com/showthread.php?t=34057 The poll option was not accepted this time ! Thank you request to admins: plz merge this with the abovee thread or delete this thread altogether. ty

Just a few points I thought I’d go over: 1- disparity in numbers corrected. The disparity in the number of players in each team got corrected with the red card given to the Chinese player in the second half. Upto that point, we were playing with 10 men, against their 11. Oladi? For...

Today our U-19 team got humiliated by a team that finds it very hard to play simple friendly games outside its country, North Korea. did the north koreans really dominate us? NO. I didnt see domination. but what I saw was their organization and passing ability which got the better of our...

Where in the hell is it written you HAVE to keep the legioners for 90 minutes of the game, irrespective of how crappy they play? I am referring to Teymoorian’s string of horrible games. Don’t mistake me, I am very happy with him going to the old blighty and all, and playing in their...

having discussed all the formation and permutations and line ups for the korea game, and demanding the best out of the team and ............. etc., , I got to thinking about the next game, against syria, which is far more important to us than the away game to korea. I know we all wanted a more...