| Team Melli roster reduced to 27 players |
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| Thursday, 16 February 2012 12:15 |
![]() Eleven players were cut off the preliminary whereas 20-year-old leftwinger Yaghoub Karimi of Naft Tehran was added. Iran will hold a training camp in Dubai with 24 players, including a friendly match against Jordan (February 23). Only the three European based players - Javad Nekounam, Alireza Haghighi and Ashkan Dejagah - will be missing in the UAE, while the Persian Gulf legionnaires are expected to be available. The European trio will then join the rest of the team in Tehran before the squad will be reduced to 23 men for the World Cup qualifier against Qatar in Tehran on February 29. Below comes the squad. Goalkeepers: Mehdi Rahmati - Esteghlal Tehran Alireza Haghighi - Rubin Kazan, RUS Sosha Makani - Naft Tehran Mohsen Forouzan - Tractor Sazi Tabriz Mohammad-Bagher Sadeghi Defenders: Hadi Aghily - Al Arabi, QAT Jalal Hosseini - Sepahan Esfahan Pejman Montazeri - Esteghlal Tehran Shoja Khalilzadeh - Mes Kerman Khosro Heydari - Esteghlal Tehran Hossein Mahini - Zob Ahan Esfahan Ehsan Hajisafi - Tractor Sazi Tabriz Amir-Hossein Feshangchi - Persepolis Tehran Midfielders: Javad Nekounam - CA Osasuna, ESP Ali Karimi - Persepolis Tehran Pejman Nouri - Emirates FC, UAE Maziar Zare - Persepolis Tehran Ghasem Hadadifar - Tractor Sazi Tabriz Mohammad Nouri - Persepolis Tehran Reza Haghighi - Fajr Sepasi Shiraz Strikers: Ashkan Dejagah - Vfl Wolfsburg, GER Mohammad-Reza Khalatbari - Al Wasl, UAE Gholamreza Rezaei - Persepolis Tehran Yaghoub Karimi - Naft Tehran Mohammad Ghazi - Zob Ahan Esfahan Karim Ansarifard - Saipa Karaj Reza Norouzi - Foolad Khuzestan |
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It is the same old story? I don't think he knows too much about our players or at least it shows this way
are you kidding me? Zare? Montazeri? Noori?
Noori is not a standard midfiealder, not physical,not strong,even perspolis is too much for him?
What about a new combination of new players like seyed salehi and gholami,ansarifard in front and karimi behind them
gholam rezaei? Feshanghchi? He is far from his good days?