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Alireza Mansourian pledges full support to Queiroz

Naft Tehran coach and a former Team Melli player, Alireza Mansourian pledged his full support to Team Melli and Coach Carlos Queiroz. Mansourian was present at the farewell ceremony of Team Melli to wish them well before departure to Australia.

In a short statement to the press at Team Melli camp site, Mansourian said “I came here to show my support to the boys, and Carlos Queiroz. It is my duty to do so and I sincerely wish Team Melli all the best in their difficult task in Australia. Yes, it is not an easy job by any means but the boys are well up to it.”

“Queiroz has been trying his best for the team, however the preparation was less than ideal and there is no denial in that. However some might justify the circumstances and whatever was said; we must admit that the preparation of Team Melli was well below Querioz’s expectations and definitely way below our competitors’.”

Mansourain , who has 3 players in the squad Biranvand, Amiri and Pouraliganji added “I believe that Queiroz and Team Melli in general were victims of the disputes between the Ministry of Sports and the football federation. That should not have happened but the reality was, a high tension between these two organizations resulted in Team Melli being hurt by it.”

Alireza Mansourian urged all the fans and the media to be behind Team Melli and support the team to the end.

Final list of Asian Cup squad announced

Football federation has announced the squad list of 21 players , who will be taking part in the AFC Asian Cup 2015 in Australia. 2 players will be added to the list in the coming days.

 

 

Shirt Number
Player Name

3

HAJSAFY, Ehsan


25-Feb-90
25 years
Sepahan
Defender
60 Caps
3 Goals
3 Ehsan Haji Safi

4

HOSSEINI, Jalal


03-Feb-82
33 Years
Al Ahli (QAT)
Defender
86 Caps
6 goals
4 - Jalal Hosseini

6

NEKOUNAM, Javad


06-Sep-80
35 Years
Osasuna (ESP)
Midfield
143 Caps
37 Goals
6 Javad Nekounam

14

TEYMOURIAN, Andranik


06-Mar-83
32 Years
Esteghlal
Midfield
79 Caps
9 Goals
14 Andranik Teymourian

10

ANSARIFARD, Karim


03-Apr-90
25Years
Osasuna (ESP)
Forward
42 Caps
9 Goals		10 Karim Ansarifard

7

SHOJAEI, Masoud


09-Jun-84
31 Years
Las Palmas (ESP)
Midfield
51 Caps
5 Goals		7 Masoud Shojaei

11

GHAFOORI, Vouriya


20.Sep.87
27 years
Sepahan Esfahan
Defender
1 Cap

21

DEJAGAH, Ashkan


05-Jul-86
27 years
Al Arabi (QAT)
Midfield
14 Caps
4 Goals		21 Ashkan Dejagah

16

GHOOCHANNEJAD, Reza


20-Sep-87
26 years
Al Kuwait (KUW)
Forward
14 Caps
11 Goals
16 Reza Ghoochannejad

8

POURALIGANJI, Morteza


19-Apr-92
22 years
Naft Tehran
Defender
0 Caps
0 Goal

18

JAHANBAKSH, Alireza


08-Oct-93
20 years
NEC Nijmegen (NED)
Forward
7 Caps
1 Goal
9 Alireza Jahanbakhsh

5

KHANZADEH, MohammadReza


20-Jan-92
23 years
Persepolis
Defender
7 Caps
1 Goal		sqd-Khanzadeh2013

19

BEIKZADEH, Hashim


22-Jan-84
30 years
Esteghlal
Defender
16 caps
1 goal
19 Hashim Beikzadeh

15

REZAEIAN Ramin


21-Mar-90
24 years
Rah Ahan
Defender
0 caps

1

HAGHIGHI, Alireza


02-May-88
26 years
Sporting Covilhã (POR)
Goalkeeper
6 caps		12 Alireza Haghighi

2

HEYDARI, Khosro


14-Sep-83
30 Years
Esteghlal
Defender
49 Caps
2 Khosro Heydari

22

BIRANVAND, Alireza


23-Sep-91
23 Years
Naft Tehran
Goalkeeper
0 Caps

QUEIROZ, Carlos


01-Mar-53
61 Years
Head Coach		Coach Queiroz

12

FOROUZAN, Mohsen


03-May-88
26 Years
Esteghlal
Goalkeeper
0 Caps

20

AZMOUN, Sardar


01-Jan-95
19 Years
Rubin Kazan
Forward
3 Caps
1 Goal

13

AMIRI, Vahid


02-Apr-88
26 Years
Naft Tehran
Midfield
0 Caps
0 Goal

23

POOLADI, Mehrdad


20-Feb-87
26 years
Al Shahaniya (QAT)
Defender
21 caps		23 Mehrdad Pooladi

17

RAFEI, Soroush


24-Apr-90
24 years
Foolad Khuzestan
Midfield
0 caps

9

EBRAHIMI, Omid


16-Sep-87
27 years
Esteghlal
Midfield
6 caps

 

 

 

Rahman Ahmadi on his way to South Africa.

Team Melli’s number one goalkeeper , Rahman Ahmadi is reported to be on his way to South Africa to join the Training Camp.

Ahmadi is the only Sepahan player to be released from his club duties although the Esfahani team has to play its final and crucial match this week against Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia which determines the team that qualifies for the next round of the AFC Champions League. Recently Ahmadi has lost his starting place to his rival in the team , Shehab Gordan. The other 5 Sepahan players named in the Team Melli list , will remain with their club, pending further developments.

The announcement that Rahman Ahmadi is joining the team is a good news for TEam Melli as the squad was missing an important player in the Sepahan goalkeeper. Despite his low counts of his international caps, being under-shadowed by Mehdi Rahmati, Ahmadi remains the most experienced and arguably the best choice for Team Melli against the other young and inexperienced candidates that Queiroz has picked for the team.

After the weekend match between Bayern Munich and Eintracht Braunschweig, were Davari let in two soft goals against the Bundesliga champions, one filtering between his legs, Queiroz was probably alarmed by lack of experience between the posts and despite his initial exclusion of all Sepahan players , he elected to recall the most vital of the 6 players.

3 goalkeepers in Hamed Lak , Alireza Biranvand and Sousha Makani are already included in the South Africa training camp while Davari and the rest of the European based players are not invited due to club commitments and ongoing league competitions.

Queiroz excludes Sepahan players from Team Melli !

Sepahan players Out !

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[column size=”1/2″] In an exclusive news carried by ISNA , Carlos Queiroz has decided to exclude all of the 6 Sepahan players from Team Melli camp in South Africa. It is not clear if the 6 players will be recalled for the next training camp in Austria, but if Queiroz stands by his decision and does not recall the players again for the World Cup , it will be crises in the making especially in the goalkeeping department where Rahman Ahmadi (34 years)  is currently the most experienced of the goal keepers in Iran by far and arguably the best.

Joining the squad will be two goalkeepers, Alireza Biranvand , the  22 years old Naft Tehran keeper who represented Team Melli at youth level but never at senior level and Hamed Lak  , 24 years old of Tractorsazi keeper who has just 1 cap against Yemen in WAFF tournament two years ago.

Rahman AHMADI , Omid EBRAHIMI, Ehsan HAJSAFY, Yaghoub KARIMI, and Shojaa KHALILZADEH are the 6 players who were named in the original Team Melli squad. These players were retained by their club because of  Sepahan’s commitment in the AFC Champions League. Esteghlal also held their 4 players from joining Team Melli squad , based on the same justification as Sepahan but Queiroz has spared theses players from his wrath and gave them a few days of rest before calling them to join the rest of the squad in Johannesburg.

Tractorsazi and Foolad Khuzestan positively responded to TEam Melli plans and sent their players to the airport but Queiroz asked them to return back to their clubs to play in the AFC Champions league matchday 5!

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[column size=”1/2″] It is believed that Queiroz had a meeting with his staff and came up with this decision. Sepahan has still to play one more match next week which is a decider. A win is crucial for them to qualify for the next round of the AFC Champions League while any other result will spell the end of their participation in this competition. Sepahan has not qualified for the next season edition of the AFC Champions league due to their failure to grab one of the 4 possible places for Iran.

In the absence of any official sources regarding this decision , it is very much hoped that Queiroz decision is temporary and sanity will prevail when the dust settles down. The dispute between Queiroz and the club coaches has been brewing for month because of the ill timing of Team Melli training camp arranged while 4 clubs are still involved with AFC Champions League. The clubs all insisted that they will stick to FIFA regulation and will not play in the Champions League without their best players.   This decision did not please Queiroz nor some FFIRI administrators who have threatened all sort of punishments for the clubs, without referring to the rules and regulations governing such players releases.

The most vocal opponent of Queiroz plans was none other than Zlatco Kranjcar, Sepahan’s Croat coach ,  who accused Queiroz shortsightedness in arranging his schedule. Kranjcar has repeatedly said from the onset of this issue arising that there is no way that he will release his players for Team Melli while the club is involved in an official competition and Sepahan will strictly apply FIFA rulings.. [/column]
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