The Football federation announced the name of the new Omid Team that will set up camp in Kish Island as part of the long-term program. The team will be participating on several tournaments with the ultimate goal of qualifying to the Rio Olympic games 2016.

The team is under the management of Mohammad Mayeli-Kohan and coached by Mohammad Khakpour.

The federation is actively trying to include some of the Legionnaire players like Sardar Azmoun and Alireza Jahanbakhsh, however , it is unlikely that the clubs will be releasing them anytime soon.

The Squad list

Naft Tehran

• Arsalan Motahari, Arash Rezavand & Ali Mohsenzadeh

Saipa Alborz

• Mehdi Torabi, Bahman Salary & MohammadReza Akhbari

Sepahan Esfahan

• Ali Karimi, Hossein Fazeli & Mohammad Hossein Moradmand

 

 Esteghlal

• Behnam Barzay & Majid Hosseini

Foolad Khuzestan

• Yusuf Vakya & Bahman  Jahan Tigh

Persepolis

• Milad Kamandani & Ahmad Nourollahi

Rah Ahan

• Amir Abedzadeh & Milad Mohammadi

Sanat Naft Abadan

• Mohammad Zubair Niknafs & Ali Abdollahzadeh

Zob Ahan

Ehsan Pahlavan & Saeb Mohebbi

Aluminum Hormozgan

• Iman Salimi

Fajr Sepasi

• Farshid Ismaili

Gostarish Foolad

•  AliReza Naghizadh

Malavan Anzali

• Hossein Kanani Zadegan

Naft Masjidl Solaiman

• Goudarz Davoudi

Padideh Mashad

• MohammadAli  Framarzi

Peykan

• Vahid Haideriyah

Saba Qom

• Rozbeh Chashmi

Tractorsazi Tabriz

• Shahin Saghebi