The President of the Iran’s Football Federation appreciated the action of the disciplinary Committee for restoring the two points that was deducted from Perspolis.

During the election of Lorestan football Board , Ali Kafashian spoke to the  reporters about the rumors of a rift between himself and the Portuguese head coach of Team Melli. He said that Carlos Queiroz is a professional coach under contract with IFF . Queiroz intends to fulfill his obligation and continue working with the team all the way to the World Cup in Brazil.  Queiroz is determined to pursue the work that has started”

About the supposed rift between the two , Kafashian said  “arranging friendly games for the national team involves long negotiations , difficult logistical problems and is time-consuming activity. In some cases a situation arises in which weak teams request to play matches against us while on our side we look for more demanding oppositions. In all cases we address these requests and finalize the details after the approval of Team Melli’s technical panel as they hold the final say. Half of the preparations and organization of friendly matches is within our own control and hence we do always look to engage strong teams , unfortunately the other 50%  do not normally agree for such games to be held.”

It seems that the rift that has been talked about revolves around the subject of arranging friendly games in which there has been wide criticism due to the poor quality of the oppositions that has been chosen during Quierez tenure as head coach of Team Melli.

The President of the Football Federation in response to a question about how 2 points was deducted from Perspolis team due to disciplinary violation, and on what basis it was restored back , said: “Due to the situation that this club was going through , it was recommended to the Disciplinary Committee to revise the decision by appeal. This committee is an independent Committee and after long discussion, they finally agreed by 3 votes to 2 to reverse the 2 points deduction from Perspolis .”

Kafashian expressed his gratitude to the Appeal Committee for this voting and said that: “I appreciate this Appeal Committee decision , but they also reminded me that I should not recommended any  practice to them because that might lead to negative actions !”

The Iranians officials are extremely upset with the Uzbek Football federation  after they published the name of 33 Iranian players which the IFF has sent to Tashkent for Visa formalities. Omid Namazi , an assistant coach to Calrlos Queiroz has called that moved by the Uzbeks as “Unprofessional”.

The confidential list was purely for requesting visa and it was not meant to be published , Namazi was quoted. With one more round of the league still to play , it is obvious that the coaching staff has finalized the list . Such a move  could upset a few players who had the potential to be included  , according to Namazi.

Interestingly enough , the list includes the name of Ashkan Dejageh who is injured and very unlikely to accompany the squad to Tashkent in June.

Name

1. AFSHIN , Arash
2. AGHILI, Hadi
3. ANSARIFARD, Karim
4. DEJAGAH, Ashkan
5. FROUZAN, Mohsen
6. GHOLAMI, Mohammad
7. GORDAN, Shehab
8. HADDADIFAR, Ghassim
9. HAGHIGHI, AliReza
10. HAGHIGHI, Reza
11. HAJSAFY, Ehsan
12. HASSANZADEH , Ahmad
13. HEYDARI, Khosrow
14. HOSSEINI, Jalal
15. JABBARI, Mojtaba
16. KARIMI, Ali
17. KHALATBARY, MohamadReza
18. KHALILZADEH, Shojaa
19. MAHINI, Hossein
20. MEYDAVOUDI, Milad
21. MONTAZERI. Pjman
22. MOSALMAN, Mohsen
23. NAJAFABADI, Mohammad Ghazi
24. NEKOUNAM, Javad
25. NOURI, Mohammad
26. NOURI, Pejman
27. NOUROZI, Reza
28. POOLADI, Mehrdad
29. RAHMATI, Mehdi
30. REZAEI, Gholamreza
31. TEYMOURIAN , Andranik
32. ZANDI, Fereydoon
33. ZARE , Maziyar