Tag: Kish Island

06/01/202406/01/2024

Iran beats Burkina Faso in Kish Island.

Team Melli defeated the West-African team Burkina Faso 2-1 in a closely contested match on Friday evening in Kish Island in a full capacity Olympic Stadium.

The guest opened the scoring in the 16th minute when Saman Ghoddos was robbed in front of the Iran goal for Konate to beat the outstretched Beiranvand with a low powerful strike. Mehdi Taremi equalized in the 42nd minute after a scramble in front of Burkina Faso’s goal. Omid Ebrahimi scored Iran’s winner in the 71st minute as a result of another scramble inside the box.

It was a tale of two teams as Ghalenoei changed the entire 11 players that have started the match with a new team plus a couple more substitutions in the second half. Despite a slow start by Iranian players, the guest showed aggression and pace that managed to disturb the rhythm of Team Melli passing game. Like usual, the middle of the park was ineffective with Saeid Ezatolahi once again raising question marks about his standard and suitability to operate as a holding midfielder In Team Melli. Errors in passing and lacking accuracy has marred his performance in this half. While Ghoddos was less not as effective as usual in the role of playmaker. The two other midfielders cum-wingers Mohebbi and Jahanbakhash failed to make an impact on the match.

Despite those deficiencies, Team Melli managed to threaten their gusts several times, but a wasteful Taremi and Moghanlou squandered a few chances that could have made the second half more comfortable than it was.

The second half saw the entire team changed for the first time in the history of Team Melli matches. The introduction of Rouzbeh Cheshmi as a defensive midfielder replacing the lame Ezatolahi, in addition to Ali Gholizadeh and Omid Ebrahimi, refreshed the midfield while Khalilzadeh in defense and Haj Safi on the left back solidified the defense. However, neither Ansarifard nor Asadi replacing Moghanlou and Taremi in the second half made any significant impact up front.

At the final whistle of the Iraqi referee, Amir Ghaleneoi must have been quite relieved by the narrow win but less than comfortable to see how his team can be contained and easily outpaced by a pressing and aggressive team.

It seems that Alireza Beiranvand sustained an injury in the first half and his substitution was necessary. On the bench Beiranvand was treated with heavy ice pack on his knees. Rezaeian was not involved as he is still being treated and the coaching staff did not risk him for this match.

Iran will play Indonesia next in Doha in the final preparation game before starting its campaign in AFC Asian Cup vs Palestine.

31/12/202331/12/2023

Team Melli announces the preparation plan.

A training camp is arranged in Kish Island
A friendly match against Burklina Faso is arranged in Kish.

According to the plans made public by the Football Federation, Team Melli team will hold its camp in Kish on January 4th. During the camp, the Iran team will play its last match before traveling to Qatar to take part in the AFC Asian Cup. The match will be held on Friday, January 5th at the Kish Olympics stadium against Burkina Faso national team.
This team is currently training in Dubai. The game at Kish Island will be held at 18:00 Iran time. After this match, the squad will continue training in Kish until January 8th when they will fly to Doha well ahead of the first match against Palestine.

Team Melli will be gathering in Kish without the legionnaire players unless some of these clubs release the players early.

Burkina Faso national football team

This African Team has never played against Team Melli. The FIFA Ranking of Burkina Faso national football team ranks 57th in the world according to the latest FIFA rankings, higher than teams like Qatar, Finland, and Ireland. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia is 56th in this ranking and Iran is 21st.

Almost all the players of the national team play abroad with European and African clubs to a lesser extent. Perhaps the most famous player is the 28-year-old Bertrand Traoré who plays for the English Premier League side, Aston Villa. Two other players are also playing in the EPL, Dango Ouattara at Bournemouth and Issa Kaboré at Luton Town.

Burkina Faso has never qualified for the FIFA World but the country’s football took a significant stride in the new millennium with the team reaching the African Nations Cup several times and ending the tournament in Senegal in 2021 in the fourth rank. Their best-ever position was the runner-up in 2013 in South Africa.

Last 5 results

12/09/23	FRI	Morocco	1 – 0	Burkina Faso	L
13/10/23	FRI	Equatorial Guinea	0 – 0	Burkina Faso	D
17/10/23	FRI	Mauritania	1 – 2	Burkina Faso	W
17/11/23	CWC	Burkina Faso	1 – 1	Guinea-Bissau	D
21/11/23	CWC	Ethiopia	0 – 3	Burkina Faso	W

24/05/202124/05/2021

Team Melli preparing for the Crucial Games.

Team Melli’s next official match in the World Cup 2022 qualifying rounds is fast approaching. Iran will play against Hong Kong in Bahrain thirteen days from now.

*Squad List

Meanwhile, The Croat head coach Dragan Skocic will announce the squad after the next round of league matches on Monday 24th May, after both Persepolis and Esteghlal play their postponed matches against Zob Ahan and Sanat Naft Abadanaft respectively.

Esteghlal and Persepolis are expected to have the most players in the Team Melli squad.

On concluding the matches on Monday, the final list will be announced at midnight, and the players named will have to make themselves available by the next day for training camp. Due to the presence of a number of legionnaires in this list, Skocic informed the players he picked to leave for Iran as soon as possible to participate in the training camp from day one. Most of the European Leagues have played their last matches on Sunday and pending flight availability, there should be no major delay in the availability of the legionnai4es in Tehran.

* Commencement of the training camp 24th May

According to the schedule, all the players and staff will undergo COVID19 PCR checks before joining the camp. After the results are determined, the group will hold its first training session at the National Football Academy second field.

The squad will finally leave for Kish Island on May 26th and will hold its first training session together in the late evening when the weather cools down, at the Kish Olympic Stadium.

The squad will be holding training sessions daily with all sessions conducted around the times of the matches so that the player acclimates to the condition existing in Bahrain. With the practice sessions being held late evenings, the lights of Kish Island Olympic Stadium have been strengthened to address Skochic’s most important concern on the grass.

* Vaccination of players

After the corona test is declared negative, legionnaires who have not yet received the Corona vaccine in their home countries will receive the first dose of the vaccine. Also, the group that passed the first stage of vaccination in Tehran will receive the second dose in Kish Island.

* Flight to Bahrain

The Iranian camp on Kish Island continues until 31st May. On the same day, the national team will fly to Manama, the capital of Bahrain, on a chartered flight, and will play its first match on June 3rd against Hong Kong, which is a warm-up for The game against Bahrain on 7th June.

Upon arrival in Bahrain, the national team will undergo corona testing and practice indoors.

For Iran to assure a place in the next round, they win have to win all their games, to overcome Iraq and Bahrain and advance to the third qualifying round of the World Cup.

On Sunday, Bahrain played an international friendly against Ukraine. The match ended in a 1-1 draw with the Ukrainians scoring in the dying minutes of the match.

Meanwhile, Iraq will be playing a friendly match against Tajikistan on Monday. The Slovenian Head Coach SrečkoKatanec has announced the names of 26 players for this match.

* Match Schedule

DATE	TIME	COMPETETION	STAGE	TEAM HOME	TEAM AWAY	VENUE
21-Mar-24	19:00	fifa World Cup 2026 Qualifiers	Round 2 Matchday 3	IRAN	TURKMENISTAN	Azadi Stadium , Tehran
26-Mar-24	18:00	fifa World Cup 2026 Qualifiers	Round 2 Matchday 4	TURKMENISTAN	IRAN	Venue Aşgabat Stadiony , Aşgabat
06-Jun-24		fifa World Cup 2026 Qualifiers	Round 2 Matchday 5	HONG KONG	IRAN	Hong Kong Stadium. Hong Kong
11-Jun-24		fifa World Cup 2026 Qualifiers	Round 2 Matchday 6	IRAN	UZBEKISTAN	Azadi Stadium, Tehran
05-Sep-24		fifa World Cup 2026 Qualifiers	Round 3 Matchday 1
10-Sep-24		fifa World Cup 2026 Qualifiers	Round 3 Matchday 2
10-Oct-24		fifa World Cup 2026 Qualifiers	Round 3 Matchday 3
15-Oct-24		fifa World Cup 2026 Qualifiers	Round 3 Matchday 4
14-Nov-24		fifa World Cup 2026 Qualifiers	Round 3 Matchday 5
19-Nov-24		fifa World Cup 2026 Qualifiers	Round 3 Matchday 6

*Group Standing

Group C

Standings

		P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	PTS
1	Iraq	5	3	2	0	9	2	7	11
2	Bahrain	5	2	3	0	3	1	2	9
3	Iran	4	2	0	2	17	3	14	6
4	Hong Kong	5	1	2	2	3	5	-2	5
5	Cambodia	5	0	1	4	1	22	-21	1

26/11/2018

Omid Team will face Syria in Kish.

The Manager of the Iran U23 national team, (Omid Team) , announced the forthcoming plan for the team which includes a training camp in which the team will play two friendly matches against the Syrian national U23 team.

in an interview with Hamid Estili published in the official website of the Football Federation, Omid Team Manager said: “The new round of Iranian U23 National Football team training begins on Dec. 15^th. A day later, the squad will fly to Kish Island to play two friendly preparations matches.”

The director of the Omid team also said: “According to the schedule , the first match will be held on 18^th December in Kish, we will face Syria in the first game. Syria is a powerful opponent and can be a very useful game. On December 21^st, we will hold the second game in Kish also against the same team (Syria), and then we will return back to Tehran to conclude the camp.”

Estili added: “It’s very important for us to hold preparation games to compete against the best opponents possible. The coaching & technical staff has emphasized this. Fortunately, we played a very good match against Oman, and the two scheduled matches against Syria should be very useful indeed. Also, luckily, we have had good results in negotiating with some other Asian teams for more matches. The result of these will be announced in dues time after agreeing terms. The ultimate goal is to be prepared for a tough competition by playing valuable matches with different teams to prepare for the preliminary qualifiers for the Asian U23 and the Olympics. We shall achieve our objectives, God willing, with the support of the Federation. To this day, it has been excellent, which I see as prudent to mention that publicly. We are encouraged by the interest and support given to the team’s program and the backing of all parties concerned from the federation executives to the clubs.”

Team Omid (Iran U23) , which is coached by the Croat coach Zlatko Kranjcar, is preparing for the AFC Asian Championship qualifiers and the preliminary Olympics Games football competition qualifiers.

02/11/201402/11/2014

South Africa camp might be off due to Ebola.

FFIRI is re-thinking the plan to send Team Melli to the South African city of Johannesburg due to fears of the Ebola epidemic in Africa.

The final decision will be announced shortly, however , an alternative plan is already in place to set camp at Kish Island.

Recently, Ali Kaffashian has visited Chehar Mahal Bakhtiyari and found what he described as an ideal and suitable location for a training camp in Brojan. The scenic town located between three provinces of Esfahan, Fars and Chehar Mahal Bakhtiyari is also a popular tourist attraction with high quality facilities.

The only disadvantage of Brojan would be the weather which tends to be on the colder side in the current season while Kish is ideal and close to the Australian summer.