Iran national football team coach Carlos Queiroz says it is time to climb for Team Melli in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. Iran has been drawn with Iraq, Yemen and Vietnam in Group D of the AFC Asian Cup. The 2019 AFC Asian Cup will be held in the United Arab Emirates from January 5 […]

Meysam Ashtiani has been named the new head coach of Afghanistan beach soccer team. Ashtiani will head Afghanistan in the AFC Beach Soccer Championship Thailand 2019, which will be held in Pattaya, Thailand from March 9-17, 2019. Afghanistan has been drawn along with host nation Thailand, Malaysia and Palestine in Group A. Karim Moghaddam is […]

Iran leads Asia with 13 nominations in the 19th edition of the UMBRO Futsal Awards 2018. Iranian futsal coaches Mohammad Nazemalsharieh and Shahrzad Mozafar have been nominated for the world’s best coach. Nazemalsharieh led the men’s futsal team to the 2018 AFC Futsal Championship title, while Mozafar helped the women’s team win back-to-back titles in […]

Tohid Lotfi from Iran’s Mes Sungun Varzaghan has been nominated for the Best Young Player in the World award. Lotfi was a member of Mes Sungun team who won the 2018 AFC Futsal Club Championship in August after beating Miguel Rodrigo’s Thai Son Nam 2-1 at Yogyakarta. The 20-year-old player also helped Iran national futsal […]

Farhad Tavakoli and Hossein Tayebi have been nominated for the Best Player in the World by futsalplanet. Tavakoli and Tayebi were members of Iran national futsal team who won the AFC Futsal Championship. Tayebi also helped Mes Sungun win the AFC Futsal Club Championship. The Best Player in the World nominations are as follow: (in […]

Sepahan football team and Persepolis drew 1-1 in Iran Professional League (IPL), with both teams in good form and looking to extend unbeaten streaks. In the match held in Isfahan’s Naghshe Jahan Stadium, Sepahan started good but after 15 minutes, the visiting team controlled possession and kept Sepahan on their toes. In the second half, […]

Persepolis iconic defender Mohammad Ansari underwent successful surgery to repair his torn ACL on Saturday. He suffered an ACL injury in the last minutes of the match against Kashima Antlers in the AFC Champions League second-leg final in Tehran’s Azadi Stadium in mid-November. Ansari has missed the rest of the Iran professional League (IPL) season […]

Paralympic.org has praised the Iranian Para taekwondo athlete Mahdi Pourrahnama. Taekwondo will debut at the Paralympic Games at Tokyo 2020. Athletes will contend in six medal events in the Games. The division’s most athletic fighters are chasing Pourrahnama, the favorite in the men’s up to 75 kg K44/K43. He is one of 12 fighters looking […]

Ali Daei believes that Iran and Japan are the most likely contenders to reach the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 final, with the continental competition now less than four weeks away. The Iranian legend is the tournament’s record goalscorer, having found the back of the net 14 times over three editions, yet the former striker […]

Iranian futsal club Mes Sungun has been nominated for the best club in the world. Mes Sungun, headed by Hamid Bigham Tabrizi, won the AFC Futsal Club Championship in August. (in strict alphabetical order!) Associação Carlos Barbosa de Futsal (BRA) Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro (ARG) Clube Esportivo e Recreativo Atlantico Erechim (BRA) Leoas […]