The names of the Omid Team players were announced by the FFIRI. According to the official website of the Football Association, 30 players are invited for the U-23 team training camp commencing July 10th and lasting 5 days. The squad selected by Farhad Majidi and his technical assistants will also play a friendly against Team Melli at the end of the camp on 15th July.

Iran’s Olympic team is attempting to qualify for the Olympics football competition for the first time since 1980.

The names of 30 invited players are as follows:

Me’araj Esmaeli (Zob Ahan),

Mehdi Ghaedi, Mehdi Noorollahi, Reza Azari (Esteghlal Tehran)

Nima Mirzazad (Nasaji Mazandaran)

Ismael Babaei (Fajr Sepasi Shiraz)

Reza Shekari (Rubin Kazan, Russia)

Hossein Pourhamidi (Golghar Sirjan)

Mohammad Khorram Al-Husseini (Machine-Sazi Tabriz )

Aref Gholami , Vahid Namdari (Foulad Khouzestan)

Amir Roustai, Abolfazl Razzaghpour , Mohammad Khodabandehloo (Peykan Tehran)

Amir Mahdi Janmalaki, Taha Shariati, Abolfazl Jalali, Amir Hossein Hosseinzadeh, Omid Dareh, Reza Jafari (Saipa)

Ramin Davoudi (Esteghlal Khouzestan)

Mehdi Memizadeh (Niroo Zamini)

Alireza  Arta (Mes Kerman)

Reza Jabirah (Sanat Naft Abadan)

Mohammad Mehdi Mahdikhani, Mohammad Aghajanpour, Sina Zamehran (Padidah)

MohammadReza Azadi, Mohammad Moslimpour (Tractorsazi)

Mohammad Amin Asadi (Persepolis )