The Football federation announced the name of 26 players invited to join the Omid Team camp in preparation for The Islamic Solidarity Games football competition in Turkey.
The team will be led by coach Mehdi Mahdavikia who has arranged two friendly games before departure for the games.
Omid team’s last outing in the AFC U23 Asian Championship was rather disappointing as the team did not manage to qualify from the group stage and departed home early. In the last decade, Omid team under various coaches failed in every competition that has been played including the Olympic Qualifiers.
The invited players’ list
- Ali Pilaram (South Pars)
- Alireza Khodaei (Persepolis)
- Ali Asghar SadeghNasab (Mes Rafsanjan)
- Amir Ali Sadeghi (Esteghlal)
- Amir Jafari Siglani (Gol Gohar Sirjan)
- Amir Mohammad MohkamKar (Sepahan)
- Arya Barzegar (Tractor)
- Arya Yousefi (Sepahan)
- Bilal Arazi (Gol Gohar Sirjan)
- Erfan Shahriari Khalaji,
- Fardin Rabet
- Mehdi Hashemnejad (Tractor)
- Mohammad Ghorbani (Nasiji Mazandaran)
- Mohammad Hossein Alipour (Mes Shar Babak)
- Mohammad Hossein Eslami (Zob Ahan)
- Mohammad Javadkia (Aluminium Arak)
- Mohammad Mehdi Ahmadi (Persepolis)
- Mohammad Amin Hezbavi (Foolad Khuzestan)
- Milad Kerr (Tractor)
- Payam Parsa (Sanat Naft Abadan)
- Saman Falah (Peykan)
- Saman Tooranian (Mes Kerman)
- Sina SaeediFar (Esteghlal)
- Sina Abdollahei (Naft Masjed Soleiman)
- Yasin Salmani (Sepahan)
- Younis Akbarpour (Aluminium Arak)