MOSCOW  – Croatia football coach Zlatko Dalic says Iran has been drawn in a difficult group but can advance to the next stage. “Iran has been drawn in a very difficult group because Portugal and Spain are among the best teams in Europe but Iran also is a good team and has good players,” Dalic […]

TEHRAN – Spain national football team’s coach Julen Lopetegui says they have been drawn in a hard group. Spain has been drawn with Iran, Portugal and Morocco in Group B of the 2018 World Cup. “As I’ve already said, we have a tough group. Portugal is champion of Euro and they have fantastic players and […]

TEHRAN– The Iranian national football team (known as Team Melli) has been drawn in Group B of the 2018 World Cup. In the draw ceremony held at Moscow’s State Kremlin Palace on Friday, Iran was pitted against Spain, Portugal and Morocco in Group B. Iran will open the prestigious competition with a match against Morocco […]

TEHRAN – Parisa Rohanian from Iran claimed a silver medal at the first stage of the 2017-2018 Indoor Archery World Cup in Morocco. She lost to Denmark’s Lena Agerholm in recurve junior women final and claimed the silver medal. The bronze medal went to Madison Devencenzi from USA. The second stage of the Indoor Archery […]

Manchester City starlet Phil Foden scored twice as England came from behind to crush Spain 5-2 in the FIFA Under-17 World Cup final on Saturday. Victory added to England’s growing list of youth honors – they have won the Under-20 World Cup and European Under-19 championship this year – and was revenge for losing the […]

TEHRAN  – Bleacherreport.com has selected Iranian midfielder Younes Delfi among the 25 notable players who showed brilliant performance in the FIFA U-17 World Cup in India. Iran had a tournament to remember, topping its group with nine points (beating Germany 4-0 in the process) and reaching the quarter-final stage, where it bowed out to Spain, […]

TEHRAN – Despite having won all three of their games, Iran U-17 coach Abbas Chamanian says that there are still a lot of good teams in the competition. Iran qualified for the FIFA U-17 World Cup Round of 16 with three wins over Guinea, Germany and Costa Rica. Chamanian’s boys will face Mexico or Chile […]

Iran defeated Costa Rica 3-0 in Group C of the FIFA U-17 World Cup at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Goa, on Friday. Mohammad Ghobeishavi opened the scoring in the 25th minute from the penalty spot and Taha Shariati extended Iran’s lead four minutes later from the spot again. With three minutes remaining, Mohammad Sardari […]

TEHRAN- Syria’s World Cup journey comes to an end after losing to Australia in the second leg of the Asian playoff on Tuesday. Australia defeated Syria 2-1 in Sydney. Socceroos drew 1-1 with Syria in Malaysia last week and the 3-2 aggregate victory sent it into an intercontinental playoff in November against the fourth-placed team […]

The Iranian pair claimed a gold medal at the World Dart Federation (WDF) Youth World Cup 2017 on Friday. The Iranian team consists of Deniz Hashtbaran and Mahshad Avazzadeh defeated Lerena Rietbergen and Layla Brussels from the Netherlands 6-5 in the final match. The Iranian pair defeated Kristiansen/Sonnichsen from Denmark 4-1 in quarterfinals. The double […]