Olympic champion and four-time World champion Jordan Burroughs will likely join Iranian wrestling club Bimeh Razi, team’s manager, Kiumars Mehrabi, said. There is no place Burroughs enjoys competing more than wrestling-crazed Iran. The passion of the fans and level of competition is unmatched anywhere in the world. According to Mehrabi, the Iranian team has reached […]

TEHRAN– Iran has learned its rivals at the Intercontinental Beach Soccer Cup. The Intercontinental Beach Soccer Cup will kick off on Oct. 31 in Dubai, the UAE with the closing game to be held on Nov. 4. The competition is composed of eight teams spread over two groups. Iran has been pitted against Mexico, Paraguay […]

TEHRAN – Iranian female wushu fighters collected 11 medals to land second overall at the 14th World Wushu Championships. Final showdowns of the international sportive tournament in in the western Russian city of Kazan saw Iran clinching more medals at various divisions. Persian wushu practitioners finished runner-up in the tournament after winning eight gold, one […]

TEHRAN – Persepolis football team of Iran is eighth in the latest Club Asia Ranking, released by footballdatabase.com. Iran Professional League title-holder Persepolis is the country’s sole representative in the AFC Champions League. Branko Ivankovic’s team sits eighth in the ranking with 1560 points. Al Hilal of Saudi Arabia, who has defeated Persepolis 4-0 in […]

TEHRAN  – FIFA has banned the Iranian national football team’s midfielder Saeid Ezatolahi Iran’s first match at the 2018 World Cup. FIFA says its disciplinary panel imposed a two-game suspension on the 21-year-old midfielder for his red card against South Korea in a qualifying match in Seoul on Aug. 31. Ezatolahi brought his boot down […]

TEHRAN – Winfried Schäfer has been named as new head coach of Esteghlal football team on Monday. The 67-year-old coach has penned a one year contract, with the option of extension. The former Cameroon and Thailand head coach replaced Alireza Mansourian in the Iranian popular football team. Schäfer has also worked at VfB Stuttgart, FK […]

TEHRAN – Iran U-17 football coach Abbas Chamanian says that they have a common goal in the FIFA U-17 World Cup 2017 and are working as a team to reach that target. The prestigious competition will kick off on Friday in Goa, India. Iran has fond memories of Goa and is hopeful that this can […]

TEHRAN – Iranian national football team’s striker Sardar Azmoun says that he will make a decision about his future after the 2018 World Cup. Team Melli striker currently plays at Rubin Kazan, despite being linked with European giants Liverpool, Arsenal and Lazio. “I want to play in the big leagues and I will make the […]

German football coach Winfried Schafer has been linked with a move to Iran’s Esteghlal. Schafer is without a team after parting company with Jamaica in last September. A source close to the club said Esteghlal General Manager Reza Eftekhari is now in Dubai to negotiate with the 67-year-old coach. Winfried Schafer started his coaching career […]

Barcelona continued their 100% start to life in La Liga in bizarre circumstances, beating Las Palmas 3-0 at an empty Camp Nou. The club had asked for the match to be postponed due to protests across Catalonia over the controversial Catalan independence referendum in which more than 750 people have been injured, many in the Spanish city. […]