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MNA - Iran football coach Afshin Ghotbi called up Masoud Shojaei and Andranik Teymourian to the national team for two friendlies against China and South Korea.

Iran will face China on September 3 in Zhengzhou and play South Korea four days later in Seoul.
Shojaei was left out of Iran football team following an interview with a TV channel in which he had criticized Ghotbi.
 
Teymourian, who has no team in the new season, has been summoned to the national team as well.

Squad:

Goalkeepers:
Mehdi Rahmati, Ebrahim Mirzapour, Ali-Reza Haghighi
Defenders: Hadi Aghili, Jalal Hosseini, Hanif Omranzade, Hassan Ashjari, Mohammad Hosseini, Mohammad Nosrati

Midfielders:
Khosro Heidari, Ehsan Hajsafi, Pejman Noori, Hamid-Reza Aliaskar,
Milad Zeniedpour, Mohammad Noori, Farzad Ashoobi, Iman Mobali, Mohammad-Reza Khalatbari, Javad Nekounam, Andranik Teymourian

Strikers:
Karim Ansarifard, Gholamreza Rezaei, Hadi Norouzi, Masoud Shojaei, Mehrdad Oladi.

Iran, which is gearing up for the 2011 AFC Asian Cup, has been drawn along with Iraq, North Korea and the UAE in the 2011 AFC Asian Cup.
 
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