Iran Names Squad ahead of UAE match

IranSportsPress.com- Iran’s national football team head coach, Ali Daei, announced the 26-men squad here on Friday for the World Cup qualifier match against UAE on June 2nd.

Niloufar Momeni

Iran National team Captain, Mehdi Mahdavikia, is back to the squad following the recovery of his injury which sidelined him in Iran’s encounter against Kuwait. Fully recovered Javad Nekounam also joins Iran squad after one year injury-layoff.

Other notable additions to the new squad are inclusion of Freydun Zandi, former Iran National team left winger who has not been called up to squad since his appearance in World Cup 2006. Another notable addition is Hansa Rostock forward, Amir Shapourzadeh’s first Call-up to Iran National team following his short spell at Iran B team in June 2007.

Among UAE-based players, Reza Enayati is called up to Iranian squad again since his spell at Asian Cup 2007 campaign, while UAE league’s top scorers including Mehrzad Madanchi , Iman Mobali and Javad Kazemian are missing from the list.

The list of National team invitees from Perspolis and Sepahan teams will be announced by Ali Daie after Perspolis-Sepahan match on Saturday.

Iran National team will commence their training camp in Ardebil on Sunday May 18th. Iranian team is also scheduled to play a friendly match against Bosnia on May 26th in Azadi Stadium, and a week later Iran will host UAE National team in Azadi stadium on June 2nd.

Iran is in Group five of Asian World Cup qualifying tournament with Kuwait, Syria and the United Arab Emirates.

The full list is as follows:

GoalKeepers: Mehdi Rahmati, Ebrahim Mirzapour

Defenders: Jalal Hosseini, Rahman Rezaei, Satar Zare, Morteza Asadi, Hashem Beikzadeh

Midfielders: Mohammad Alavi, Mojtaba Shiri, Majid Gholamnejad, Ebrahim Sadeghi, Mehdi Mahdavikia, Javad Nekounam, Freydun Zandi, Andranik Teimourian, Ali Karimi, Masoud Shojaei, Maziar Zare, Mohamadreza Khalatbari, Mojtaba Jabbari, Gholamreza Rezaei

Strikers: Amir Shapourzadeh, Reza Enayati, Hadi Asghari, Ruholah Bigdeli, Milad Meidavoudi.

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