FFIRI announced the initial list of 26 players who are nominated to attend the Team Melli training camp in Portugal. The final list will be announced by Thursday.
Team Melli will be flying to Portugal on 4th October. The camp will be based in the capital Lisbon.
Two games have been arranged during this camp. On Friday 10th October Estoril will be Team Melli opponents while on Tuesday 22nd , Team Melli will face Benfica in its second test match.
The list includes Seyed Mehdi Rahmati who was blacklisted by Queiroz, with 7 goalkeepers on the list, which is a first in Team Melli’s squad lists, it remains to be seen if Rahmati is shortlisted for the next phase of Team Melli training. Daniel Davari has shown little interest in joining the squad and prefers to stay home for family reasons.
There is no place for Peyam Sadeghi because of his suspension, however, Hossein Mahini who is officially suspended by the League commission and the Military authority is included in the list !
Mehrdad Pooladi who is out of contract and has no club to train with , is named in the squad. Pooladi’s last competitive match was against Bosnia on 25th June 2014. He has not been playing or training for a league team for 3 months now, but his inclusion in the list is nothing too strange as Mehrdad Pooladi was once named in the squad while he was walking on crutches!
There are two players who are mentioned as being part of the list , but not announced by the FFIRI.
GOALKEEPERS
Rahman AHMADI, Alireza HAGHIGHI,Sousha MAKANI, Alireza BIRANVAND, Daniel DAVARI, Mohsen FROUZAN , Mehdi RAHMATI
DEFENDERS
Mehrdad POOLADI, Hashim BEIGZADEH,Jalal HOSSEINI, Pejman MONTAZERI,Ehsan HAJSAFY, Khosrow HEYDARI, Javad NEKOUNAM, AliReza JAHANBAKHSH, Soja’a KHALILZADEH, Ahmad ALE NEMEH, Steven BEITASHOUR, Mehrdad JAMAATI, Morteza POURALIGANJI, Ahmad ABDULLAZADEH, Hossein AmirHossein MAHINI,SADEGHI,.
MIDFIELD
Yaghoub KARIMI,Andranik TEYMOURIAN, Omid EBRAHIMI, Ashkan DEJAGAH,
Reza HAGHIGHI SHANDIZ, Soroush RAFEI , SHOJAEI, Masoud, Ghassim HADDADIFAR, MohamadReza KHALATBARY, Saman NARIMANJAHAN
FORWARDS
Reza GHOOCHANNEJAD, Sardar AZMOUN, Karim ANSARIFARD, Mehdi SHARIFI