TEHRAN (Iran News) Team Melli had lost to Egypt and Lebanon in the event.

The Persians took part in the tournament as part of their preparation for the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup.

Led by Greek coach Sotiris Manolopoulos, Iran is drawn into Group B, alongside Japan, Syria, and Guam.

Additionally, Iran will travel to Russia for several warm-up matches before heading to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

TEHRAN (Iran News) Team Melli had lost to Egypt and Lebanon in the event.

The Persians took part in the tournament as part of their preparation for the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup.

Led by Greek coach Sotiris Manolopoulos, Iran is drawn into Group B, alongside Japan, Syria, and Guam.

Additionally, Iran will travel to Russia for several warm-up matches before heading to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

TEHRAN (Iran News) Team Melli had lost to Egypt and Lebanon in the event.

The Persians took part in the tournament as part of their preparation for the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup.

Led by Greek coach Sotiris Manolopoulos, Iran is drawn into Group B, alongside Japan, Syria, and Guam.

Additionally, Iran will travel to Russia for several warm-up matches before heading to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

TEHRAN (Iran News) Team Melli had lost to Egypt and Lebanon in the event.

The Persians took part in the tournament as part of their preparation for the 2025 FIBA Asia Cup.”Basketball”

Led by Greek coach Sotiris Manolopoulos, Iran is drawn into Group B, alongside Japan, Syria, and Guam.

Additionally, Iran will travel to Russia for several warm-up matches before heading to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

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TEHRAN (Iran News) A video conference attended by representatives of all participating ball clubs was held as the May 10-18 showpiece, to be played at the Stade Nouhad Noufal in Zouk Mikael, Beirut, Lebanon.

Al Riyadi, who is the defending Basketball Champions League Asia (BCL Asia) champion, will be representing the Sub-Zone League in the Final 8 together with Iran’s Tabiat Basketball and Sagesse SC of Lebanon.

The FIBA WASL-Persian Gulf League, on the other hand, will consist of new champion Shabab Al Ahli along with Ittihad Club and Al Qadsia SC, both of which were among the competition’s newcomers this season.

These six teams will be joined by BC Astana and Tamil Nadu, representatives of CABA and SABA, respectively.

Following the single round-robin group stage, the top two teams from each group will progress to the Semi-Finals, while the third and fourth-placed teams will be eliminated from further contention.

Subsequently, the winners of the Semi-Finals will advance to the Final to vie for the championship, with the losing sides set to meet in the Third-Place Game as all gamedays will feature double-headers.

The two finalists will earn a spot in the BCL Asia 2025, the highest club competition in the continent.

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TEHRAN (Iran News) The retirement ceremony was held during the match between Iran and India at the 2025 Asia Cup qualifier.

The ceremony took place at halftime of the game, which was Iran’s first match in the third window of the qualifying matches for the 2025 Asia Cup in Saudi Arabia.

As part of this tribute, Hamed Haddadi’s jersey number 15 was retired forever.

Iran defeated India 106-55 at the Mahmoud Mashhoun Basketball Hall in Tehran.

Team Melli will meet Kazakhstan on February 25.

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China’s wheelchair curling and wheelchair tennis of South Korea were among the nominees.

Team Melli defeated China 79-35 to win the bronze medal in the 2022 Asian Para Games in Hangzhou.

Iran had won a silver medal at the IWBF Asia Oceania Championships in the competition held in Bangkok, Thailand in May.

The award ceremony was held on the sidelines of the Asian Paralympic Committee (APC) General Assembly and Executive Board elections in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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Under presidency of Javad Davari, Iran failed to secure a place in the 2024 Olympic Games and Nikkhah said that some people in the federation misled the President.

“There are some people in the federation who have been chosen behind the scene. They gave Davari the wrong advices,” Nikkhah told Varzesh3.com.

Hamed Haddadi announced his retirement after during the 2023 FIBA World Cup.

Iran suffered five losses against Brazil, Ivory Coast, Spain, France and Lebanon. Nikkhah says that Iran cannot find the replacement for their stars.

“Our clubs have not been able to find and train the talented players. It’s normal we cannot defeat even the Asian teams. Every team need to find replacement for their retired players. Our biggest problem in the sport is to build new players,” he added.

“I am ready to help our basketball but some people must leave the federation as soon as possible. They will not allow our basketball to grow,” he concluded.

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Poriya Hosseinkhanzadh Firouzjah scored 22 points to steer Iran to the fantastic comeback against debutants Pakistan.

The competition is being held from Aug. 7 to 14 in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand.

The 2022 Asian Men’s Volleyball Cup, so-called 2022 AVC Cup for Men is the seventh edition of the Asian Cup, a biennial international volleyball tournament organized by the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) with Thailand Volleyball Association (TVA).

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The Iranian team are going to play Botas, Cankaya Universitesi and Ormanspor ahead of the competition.

The FIBA Women’s Asia Cup 2021 Division B will be played at the Prince Hamza Hall in Amman, Jordan from Nov. 7 to 13.

For the Group Phase, the six teams are separated into two groups of three according to the latest update of the FIBA World Ranking..

Iran will play Lebanon in their opening match on Nov. 7. The 2017 runners up Kazakhstan will then start their search for promotion to Division A against Indonesia. Hosts Jordan will play their first game against Indonesia later on Nov. 8 against Indonesia.

The Final Phase starts on Nov. 10 with two Qualification to Semi-Finals games between teams that finished 2nd and 3rd place in their groups.

The top team from each group will directly advance to the semi-finals which will be played on Nov. 12 after a rest day. The 5th place classification game will also be played as the first game on this day.

The Final of the FIBA Women’s Asia Cup 2021 Division B will then be played on Nov. 13 as well as the 3rd place classification game.

The winner of the FIBA Women’s Asia Cup 2021 Division B gain promotion to play in the Division A for the next edition of the Women’s Asia Cup.

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According To Iran News, Iran international power forward Mike Rostampour underwent hand surgery.

Rostampour, who currently plays for Iranian basketball club Chemidor, has undergone successful surgery on his right-hand finger.

Iranian Basketball Super League has been postponed due to the coronavirus concerns.

Rostampour is a member of Iran national basketball team.

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