Team – Founded: 1920 � Affiliated: 1945
Confederation: AFC - Asia
Squad's local nickname: Team Melli
(Team Melli most likely translates simply into "National Team,"
or similar; perhaps playing an additional role somewhat analogous to
that of the term Selecção das Quinas, in the case of Portugal.
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The Squad (by jersey number) |
The Squad (by field position) |
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Ebrahim Mirzapour Mehdi Mahdavikia  Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh ° ° Yahya Golmohammadi ° ° Rahman Rezaei Javad Nekounam Fereydoon Zandi Ali Karimi Vahid Hashemian Ali Daei  Rasoul Khatibi Hassan Roudbarian Hossein Kaabi Anderanik Teymourian Arash Borhani Reza Enayati Javad Kazemian Sattar Zare  Amir Hossein Sadeqi Mohamad Nosrati Mehrzad Madanchi Vahid Talebloo Masoud Shojae-Soleimani
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 Ebrahim Mirzapour (Foolad Ahvaz ) Vahid Talebloo (Esteghlal Tehran) Hassan Roudbarian (Pas Tehran)  Yahya Golmohammadi (Saba Battery Tehran) Mohamad Nosrati (Pas Tehran) Rahman Rezaei (Messina, Italy) Sattar Zare (Bargh Shiraz) Hossein Kaabi (Foolad Ahvaz) Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh (Saba Battery Tehran) Amir Hossein Sadeqi (Esteghlal Tehran)  Javad Nekounam (Al Sharjah, UAE) Anderanik Teymourian (Abomoslem Khorasan) Mehdi Mahdavikia (HSV, Hamburg, Germany) Fereydoon Zandi (Kaiserslautern, Germany) Ali Karimi (Bayern Munich, Germany) Mehrzad Madanchi (Perspolis) Javad Kazemian (Perspolis)  Ali Daei (Saba Battery Tehran)  Vahid Hashemian (Hanover 96, Germany) Reza Enayati (Esteghlal Tehran) Arash Borhani (Pas Tehran) Masoud Shojae-Soleimani (Saipa) Rasoul Khatibi (Pas Tehran) |
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(Italian newspaper) carries photos of each squad member – to see.
Coach⁄Manager: Branko Ivankovic (Croatian-born)
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° Goal scored in Germany-2006 (if bracketed, {
}='own goal')
also took part in the 1998 World Cup.
Sattar Zare is unfortunately out of the World Cup, after only the first match:
a serious knee injury (suffered while playing against Mexico) will require surgery.
2006
World Cup
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