By ISNA

From good looks to environmental awareness, Your Middle East's Alborz Habibi has put together a bunch of reasons for you to fall in love with Team Melli. 1. Middle East representation Iran and Algeria were the only countries in the conflict-hit Middle East to qualify for the Brazil World Cup last year. An outstanding performance by Team Melli could ...

TEHRAN Iran striker Ashkan Dejagah said that Iran must concentrate on beating Nigeria in the 2014 World Cup. Iran has been drawn against Nigeria, Argentina and Bosnia and Herzegovina in Group F of the competitions. Iran will play Nigeria in Curitiba on June 16. All three matches in group stage are important but we have to defeat Nigeria since ...

TEHRAN Iran is poised to play its first warm-up match for the 2014 World Cup against Guinea on March 5 in Tehran. The Iranian team, which has been pitted against Nigeria, Argentina and Bosnia and Herzegovina in Group A, will host the African team on next Wednesday at the Azadi Stadium. Iran will hold a training camp in Johannesburg, South Africa ...

TEHRAN,The 14th edition of Iran Professional League (IPL) will kick off on August 1, 2014. The competitions will start after the FIFA 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The IPL is looking at changing its schedule to conform to FIFA calendar. The first half of the IPL season will be finished before the 2015 AFC Asian Cup in Australia to conform to January ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 21 (MNA) Iran moved up a whopping 12 places and is now in 33rd spot in the last FIFA world rankings released on Thursday for the year 2013. The Persians stay top among the Asian teams with 720 points, followed by Japan, South Korea and Australia. Nigeria, which has been drawn with Iran in Group F of the 2014 World Cup, moved down ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Carlos Queiroz, the Portuguese head coach of the Iranian national soccer squad, will leave Tehran for South Africa to make arrangements for his teams preparation camp there, he announced on Sunday. Queiroz who was speaking with reporters after a press conference in Tehran added that he has still received no new offer from the Iranian ...

Berlin, Dec 5, IRNA -- Iran is to meet triple World Cup winners Germany,Holland and Chile following a mock 2014 World Cup draw held Thursday by Germany?s top-selling daily Bild newspaper.Germany?s top-selling daily Bild. The mock group drawings were staged by Germany?s famous television personality Johannes B. Kerner who grouped Iran with top football ...

Tehran, Aug 26 (IANS) The Iranian Footfall Federation (IFF) announced that the training camp of the national team, which wassupposed to be held in Portugal in September, has been cancelled owing to lack of funds. "We tried to arrange the training camp but it's impossible due to lack ofmoney," head of IFF Ali Kaffashian was quoted as saying by Xinhua ...

TEHRAN The friendly match between Iran and Ghana football teams has been called off after the training camp in Portugal was cancelled. Iran planned to hold a training camp in Lisbon, Portugal in August but it has been cancelled due to a lack of funds. We are going to advance to the next round in the 2014 World Cup but it will not happen without ...