Tag: Khosrow HEYDARI

End of the road for Jalal Hosseini

The Persepolis central defender, a veteran of 108 games for Team Melli and 8 goals will be appearing for the last time against Syria.

Seyyed Jalal Hosseini , who has been a fixed player for his club Persepolis winning the league title last season, has not featured in Carlos Queiroz’s team this year although he was included in the squads for the FIFA World Cup qualifiers.

At 35 , Jalal Hosseini is obviously not as versatile and quick as he used to be years back. He has formed a strong partnership with Pejman Montazeri in Team Melli for the last few years , but his loss of pace , his temperemnt and certain lack of self-control has reduced his chances of appearing for Team Melli and relegated in the pecking order for defenders by Queiroz.

In essence, Carlos Queiroz is a great believer in youth energy and for the six years he has been at the helm of Team Melli , the Portuguese coach has introduced many new players while he easily dispensed with the service of the most senior member of Team Melli without affecting the overall performances or result of the team. In Hosseini’s case, the performance of his club teammate Mohammad Ansari was quite assuring and hence he seems to be the perfect replacement for the aging Hosseini.

Like Mehdi Rahmati, Hadi Aghili, Andranik Teymourian, Khosrow Heydari, Mohammadreza Khalatbari, Mehrdad Pooladi , AmirHossein Sadeghi, Mojtaba Jabbari , Gholamreza Rezaei , Mohammad Nouri, and Mohammad Nosrati before him, the Persepolis defender is bidding farewell after a fine 10 years career with Team Melli which included participation in the FIFA World Cup 2014 and three AFC Asian Cups 2007, 2011 and 2015.

Team Melli list with the usual names announced.

The new list of players selected for Team Melli forthcoming training camp has been announced. The venue of training is still unknown. It is a toss between Kish Island or South Africa.

The list is not very different from the one that Queiroz has selected from the day he took the job. A few players here and there are selected but never given the opportunity to replace the older players especially those who fail to perform  Mehrdad Pooladi , Queiroz’s favorite player is not in the list , not out of the Portuguese coach choice , but because he was ordered not to pick him as a result of Military Services issues (the good old fake service certificate).

Mohammad Nouri , Persepolis Captain makes a comeback in Team Melli. The significant change in this current squad is that at last , the league leader manages a couple of players in the list.

Sousha Makani , the calamity Persepolis goalkeeper who has been one of the weak links of the popular Tehran club , has been selected ahead of icons like Mehdi Rahmati and Rahman Ahmadi in goal. On the other hand , Masoud Shojaei , whose team is lingering at the bottom of Qatar Star league and has been highly criticized for his poor delivery , is selected again. Another weak-performer in Karim Ansarifard, who is currently a peripheral player in a 2nd division Osasuna team in Spain is also selected. Ansarifard has failed to impress since joining Osasuna. On the bright side of the selection , Saghebi , the young Tractorsazi player who scored against Esteghlal in the top of the league clash on Friday and Abdulahzadeh  the promising Foolad Khuzestan youngster are included in the squad.

The problem though is that both players are also in the squad of the Olympic team preparing for the Qatar International Friendly tournament in January of 2015.

The Squad.

 

GOALKEEPERS

Alireza  HAGHIGHI (Penafiel), Sousha MAKANI (Persepolis), Mohsen FROUZAN (Esteghlal)

 

DEFENDERS

Hashim BEIGZADEH (Esteghlal), ,Jalal HOSSEINI (Al Ahli QAT) , Pejman MONTAZERI (Umm Salal SC  QAT), Morteza POURALIGANJI (Naft Tehran),  AmirHossein SADEGHI (Esteghlal) , Vourya GHAFFORI (Sepahan). MohammadReza KHANZADEH (Persepolis) , Habib GORDANI (Tractorsazi)

MIDFIELD

Andranik TEYMOURIAN (Esteghlal), Javad NEKOUNAM (Osasuna ESP), Ahmad ABDULLAZADEH (Foolad Khuzestan), Omid EBRAHIMI (Esteghlal),, Ehsan HAJSAFY(Sepahan), Ashkan DEJAGAH (Al Arabi QAT),   Khosrow HEYDARI (Esteghlal), Shahin SAGHEBI (Tractorsazi), Mohammad NOURI (Persepolis)

 

FORWARDS

Reza GHOOCHANNEJAD (Al Kuwat SC KWI), Sardar AZMOUN (Rubin Kazan RUS), Karim ANSARIFARD  (Osasuna ESP),  AliReza JAHANBAKHSH (NEC Nijmegen NED) , Soroush RAFEI (Foolad Khuzestan), Masoud SHOJAEI (Al Shahaniya QAT)

Latest injury list of Team Melli players.

Team Melli is preparing for the friendly game against Angola in TSV Hartberg Fußballstadion, Hartsburg tomorrow with a list of players with injury concerns.

Andranik Teymourian , Jalal Hosseini , Khosrow Heydari and Mehrdad Pooladi were all given a day off from the training after they sustained minor injuries in the Montenegro match. The tough tackling players from Montenegro also had another more serious victim in Hashim Beikzadeh whose destiny is still not clear.

It is not clear if any of the players on the injury list will be available for the Angola match. The match will be the last opportunity for Carlos Queiroz to finalize his 23 players list. Assuming that all the injured players are on the final list , Queiroz might opt to rest them or use them as substitutes.

The FFIRI website announced that the doctors examined Hashim Beikzadeh closely and determined that there is a very good chance that his injury can be cured by the start of the World Cup 18 days from now, however the left back will have to fly to Brazil ahead of the squad to receive some treatments at the hand of Brazilian specialist probably at Corinthians FC Medical Facility.

The rest of the players are all injury free and continued their regular training.Beikzadeh walking with Heydary

Esteghlal management defies Team Melli.

In a statement to ISNA , Ali Fathollazadeh , the CEO of Esteghlal club said that club will be traveling to Riyadh to play Al Shabab of Saudi Arabia with a full strength squad, including  their Team Melli players

In order for Esteghlal to qualify for the next rounds of the 2014 AFC Champions League , it has to win the remaining two matches. The heartbroken Esteghlal which  was defeated in a crucial last day of the season match by Tractorsazi, will not be competing in the premiere competition of Asian club football after missing out on the ranking. Winning this current edition of the competition is the only salvation for this proud champion pedigree team from Tehran and hence the clubs has decided to go with full force to Riyadh. Esteghlal lost the league title to Foolad Khuzestan while the cup was won by Tractorsazi this season.

With Esteghlal taking all their players, Team Melli may have to depart to South Africa without them. As it is , there will be at least 7 or 8 players missing from the Team Mellli squad already due to club commitments. Players in Kuwait and Qatar are yet to be released by their clubs , while there is no chance of any European based players joining the camp.  There was no comment from the football federation or Team Melli coaching staff regarding Esteghlal decision and their refusal to release their players for the South Africa camp.  Legislation does not force a club to release the players for the national team training camps, so legally the IRIFF is helpless if Esteghlal departs to Saudi Arabia with their full team.

 

Current Team Melli players

HEYDARI, Khosrow

SADEGHI, AmirHossein

TEYMOURIAN, Andranik