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Team Melli U-22 Squad finalized

FFIRI announced the final list of 23 players forming Iran’s squad to the AFC Asian U-22 Cup to be held in Muscat, Oman.

Team Melli U-22 is in Group C with Japan , Australia and Kuwait.

After the return of the team from Kish Island training camp and following playing a friendly match against South Korea, Alireza Mansourian, the team’s head coach , announced his resignation while the first choice replacement Human Afazeli has finally responded positively to his appointment after agreeing terms with the football federation. Afazeli pleaded with all concerned to support the team .

The announced list is missing a few significant players , like Payam Sadeghian , Mohsen Mosalman , Sardar Azmoun and Alireza Jahanbakhash. These players were not released by their clubs. However, the positive that emerged is that the core of this squad have already been playing together at different age levels teams for Iran/

The matches schedule

2-Jan-14 19:00 C Japan Iran Royal Oman Police Stadium, Muscat
14-Jan-14 19:00 C Iran Australia Royal Oman Police Stadium, Muscat
16-Jan-14 16:30 C Iran Kuwait Seeb Stadium, Seeb

 

The Squad

  Player Club
1 Afshin ESMAELZADEH Birama (POR)
2 Ahmad ZENDEROH Mes Kerman
3 Alireza BIRAVAND Naft Tehran
4 Amin JAHAN-ALIAN Sepahan Esfahan
5 Amir ABEDZADEH  Perspolis
6 Amir Arsalan Mottahari Moghavamat Tehran
7 Ammar NIK-KAR Parseh Tehran
8 Behnam BARAZAI Rah Ahan
9 Ehsan PAHLAVAN Sepahan Esfahan
10 Fardin ABEDINI Gostarish Tabriz
11 Farzin KAROUSIAN Mes Songon
12 Kaveh REZAEI Saipa
13 Masoud RIKI Fajr Sepasi
14 Mehdi SHIRI Malavan Anzali
15 Mehdi TARMI Iranjavan Bushehr
16 Mohammad Amin HAJ-MOHAMMADY Naft Tehran
17 Mohammadreza KHANZADEH Zob Ahan
18 MohammadVahid ESMAEILBEIGI Mes Kerman
19 Morteza POURALIGANCHI Naft Tehran
20 Navid KHOSH-HAVA Tractorsazi Tabriz
21 Peyman MEERI Parseh Tehran
22 Shahab KARAMI Foolad Khuzestan
23 Shahriyar SHIRVAND Tractorsazi Tabriz