Iran Defeats Ghana B

Persopress-The Iranian side defeated Ghana with a 4-2 lead at the final whistle. Iran played a 4-3-3 formation which was something new for the Iranians. Zandi played for Vahedi as he was slightly injured and could not play in the match. The new thing though was that Zandi played defense, it was not normal for him to play this position but it seemed that he did a very good job. The Iranians scored three goals in the first 30 minutes of the match which was fairly impressive as they were actually creating beautiful plays and destroying the Ghanaian defense. Enayati score an amazing head in the 11th minute with Kazemian's assist and only minutes later Kazemian got a penalty for Iran as Nekounam netted that in the 11'th. Things were going well for Iran and only got better in the 27th when Karimi gave a nice pass from inside the box to the center of the box and Enayati had a open net and netted it with an easy shot. The score was 3-0 for Iran and everything seemed to be going well until only 5 minutes later Ghana player Kumordi scored an easy shot that really didn't seem like it wasn't going in as Talebloo just stood there watching the ball roll in. In the 48'th minute Ghana player Addo came from the side to the center and shot a slow ball to the corner to the net going through about 4 Iranian defenders and the tip of the hand of Talebloo. It was amazing that Ghana had just scored two goals and Iran was only up by one to Ghana's B team. But Aghili confirmed the win for Iran in the 50'th minute when Zandi kicked a free kick from the side of the box right into the center and Aghili was there to head the ball in to make the final score 4-2. This game was a very good game for Iran but showed that Iran defense could be cracked, but we have to keep in mind that in the second half Iran's-B team was presented to Ghana so they could also practice for the Asian Cup. We hope to see more games played like this by Iran. Video Highlights will be posted soon!
Iran's lineup: Talebloo - Mahdavikia (C), Aghili, Rezaei, Zandi (86' Asadi) - Nekounam - Teymourian (70' E. Sadeghi), Karimi (46' Nouri) - Kazemian (63' Kaabi), Enayati (82' Madanchi) - Hashemian (46' Khatibi)

Esteghlal gets new managment

Persopress-Famous Tehran team, Esteghlal has gotten new managment after being chosen by Ali Abadi the Owner of Esteghlal and the Head of the Sazman-Badani (Physical Department). He chose new management partially because of the many problems Esteghlal faced in the past season speciafclay not winning the IPL season our tournament. Esteghlal was also kicked out of the Asian Champions League because of lack of managmnet problems as their 23 man roster was not sent to AFC on time Ali Fatolahzadeh, Mansour Pourheidari, Khosro Daneshjoo, Mohammad Nafaryeh, and Hamidreza Alyan. This board well be in governing for the next two years hopefully bringing success to this falling team. The new coach was also named and after talks with the board and Ali Abadi it will be official that Mr. Naser Hejazi will takeover the coaching Job. We see this as a positive factor for Esteghlal as Hejazi is familiar with Esteghlal and has been known for his tactical decisions in Iran. He also used to play for former Esteghlal team Taj FC in the 60's and also played with their national team in the 70's. He also was named the second best Asian Goalkeeper in the 20'th Century.

Training in Azadi

Persopress-The training session has been reduced to only one per day, which made the players very happy as they were exhausted from the past practices. Before the trainings would be both for fitness, which was in the morning and then practicing with the ball, which was held in the afternoons. But today they just had one session and it was held in Azadi, since we have a friendly game against Ghana in 2 days in that stadium. All the players reported to practice, which made everyone happy since yesterday Zandi and Karimi had been injured and had stopped practicing. The training was very good because it was raining very hard in tehran, which is good for the players because it has been said that it rains a lot in malaysia, so it's good for the players to get used to the conditions over there. The practice went very well and the player that stood out the most today was Rahmati, who made some very good saves.

Iran B beats Iraq to win WAFF Championship

Persopress-Today Iran defeated Iraq in a good match that really should have ended up with a better score for Iran. 2-1 was the final score and the Iranians really showed what they're made of after scoring two goals in the matter of 20 minutes. Hossein Badamaki in the 11 minute and Beikzadeh in the 22nd gave Iran the full advantage of the game. At the 86th minute Iraqi player Saleh scored a penalty from a mistaken hand ball in the box by the Iranians. Some amazing performances were seen by Roudbarian as he saved Iran from two or three 100% goals with amazing dives and saves and Rajebzadeh who was well seen as he was running and sprinting the whole game until he was subbed out the 94th minute. The Iraqis though did have their chances in the late part of the game as Iran was down one man after Mobali was red carded for tackling a player and while leaving he kissed the Iranian flag three four times only to diss the Iraqis as the Referee ran towards him to shout at him. We as Iranian fans though did see some wrong calls and wrong cards by the Referee and really had to wonder if this guy was a quality referee or not? Whatever the case was Iran lifted the title at the end of the day and the highlights of the match are presented to you here at bottom of the post credits to IranGoals.com!

Iran 2 - 1 Iraq (WAFF Tournament)

11′ [1-0] Badamaki

22′ [2-0] Beikzadeh

86′ [2-1] Salih (P.K.)

FT’ [2-1] Match Highlights (goal not included)