TEHRAN (Tasnim) Mehdi Tartar has been appointed as the new head coach of the Saba football team. Tartar replaced Samad Marfavi, who stepped down as his post to join Paykan last week, in the Iranian football team. Tartar was sacked as coach of Gostaresh Foolad in October and has returned to coaching after two months. Tartar has also worked at ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Samad Marfavi has stepped down as head coach of Saba due to travel conditions. Saba was held to a 2-2 draw by Rah Ahan in the Iranian Professional League (IPL) on Friday and Marfavi announced his retirement right away in the post match news conference. I am tired of traveling from Tehran to Qom and I decided to quit my job,...