Three Iranian coaches, namely Amir Ghalehnoei, Afshin Ghotbi, and Bijan Zolfagharnasab have been ask to submit their proposals/programs for Team Melli to the Iranian Football Federation. Yep! IFF wasted months of valuable time just to look back and go after one of the guys who was just under their noses!
It’ll be very funny (Not really!) [...]

 It is now official, or is it?! Ali Kaffashian, the new Chair of the Iranian football federation has announced that Team Melli will be lead by an Iranian coach thought the first round of the qualifying matches, and a foreign coach will be hired for the next round.
There are two problems with this approach, [...]

There is a funny thing about us Iranians! No matter what corner of the country we are from and what project it is that we are working on, you can always count on us screwing up the management part of it in royal fashion! Football is no exception of course!
Take the case with finding a [...]

I have been following Iranian football for most of my life and I still can’t figure out who finds the characters that “manage” our sports.
The head of Iran’s National Organization of Physical Education oversees all the sports matters in the country including football. Mohammad Aliabadi, the character that has had the job under the [...]

Iran are in Group 5 of the Asian qualifiers. The group consists of Iran, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Syria.
On paper that is not nearly as difficult as Group 1 which is dubbed “Group of Death”, but for Iran that neither have a Head Coach nor a Football Federation chief, any group would be [...]

Ali Daei was in Durban, South Africa as one of the honorary ball-pickers for the Preliminary Draw for the FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010.
Click here to read his interview with FIFA.com.

Despite not having fully recovered from a severe knee injury, Osasuna extended Iran midfielder Javad Nekounam’s contract until 2011. This shows how highly the Pamplona club thinks of the 27 year old midfielder.
Congratulations Javad, good luck and get well soon.

No Federation Chief, and no head coach, but that has not stopped Iran from scheduling a friendly! It seems like Costa Rica are coiming back to town again. The two had met in May of 2006 when Iran was preparing for the World Cup in Germany. Oh! And we did report on it back then [...]

While Winfried Schaefer continues to claim to be the leading candidate for Team Melli job, others are turning it down.
Meanwhile Iran still has no football chief or no National Team head coach for that matter, and World Cup 2010 qualifiers are almost three months away.

Perspolis of Tehran got a big break when they defeated Saipa way into the extra time. Esteghlal of Tehran improved their position by winning their match. Sepahan stays in second place with a whooping 5 games at hand. They are well position to propel to the top as they make up for the games that [...]