Iran announce their provisional World Cup roster

April 25th, 2006 | by: Afshin Afshar | Comments(3)

Rejoice Team Melli fans, the provisional World Cup roster was announced. IRIFF site announced a list of 29 (4 of which are reserves). Adding the five European based regulars denoted by an asterisk below, we have our list.

One very notable name missing from this list is Champions Esteghlal of Tehran striker Siavash Akbarpour. He finished fourth in the scoring chart with 11 goals, tied with Ali Daei and Javad Kazemian.

Goalkeepers

Ebrahim Mirzapour (Foolad, Iran)
Vahid Taleblou (Esteghlal, Iran)
Hassan Roodbarian (Pas, Iran)
Mehdi Vaezi (Peykan, Iran)

Defenders

*Rahman Rezaei (FC Messina, Italy)
Yahya Golmohammadi (Saba, Iran)
Hossein Kabi (Foolad, Iran)
Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh (Saba, Iran)
Mohammad Nosrati (Pas, Iran)
Amir Hossein Sadeghi (Esteghlal, Iran)
Sattar Zare (Bargh, Iran)
Hadi Shakouri (Pas, Iran)

Midfielders

*Ali Karimi (FC Bayern Munich, Germany)
*Mehdi Mahdavikia (Hamburger SV, Germany)
*Fereydoon Zandi (FC Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Javad Nekounam (Sharjah FC, UAE)
Meysam Manee (Pas, Iran)
Ali Reza Vahedi-Nikbakht (Esteghlal, Iran)
Moharram Navidkia (VfL Bochum, Germany)
Javad Kazemian (Perspolis, Iran)
Mojtaba Jabbari (Esteghlal, Iran)
Andrianik Teymourian (Abumuslim, Iran)
Masoud Shojaei (Saipa, Iran)
Mehrzad Madanchi (Perspolis, Iran)
Mehdi Rajabzadeh (Zobahan, Iran)

Forwards

*Vahid Hashemian (Hannover 96, Germany)
Arash Borhani (Pas, Iran)
Ali Daei (Saba, Iran)
Reza Enayati (Esteghlal, Iran)
Rasoul Khatibi (Sepahan, Iran)

Reserve List

Eman Mobali (Al Shabab, UAE)
Hussein Kazemi (Esteghlal, Iran)
Mehdi Amirabadi (Esteghlal, Iran)
Sayed Mohamad Alavi (Foolad, Iran)
Sayed Mehdi Rahmati (Esteghlal, Iran)