SAIPA Football Club Head Coach Ali Daei Fired After Criticizing Management
May 2, 2019 - The SAIPA football team fired its head coach Ali Daei on May 1, a day after he criticized the club’s management for not fulfilling its financial obligations. Mr. Daei is...
Boxing-Iranian Female Fighter Cancels Return Home After Arrest Warrant Issued
By Julien Pretot
PARIS, April 17 (Reuters) - The first Iranian woman to contest an official boxing bout has cancelled plans to return home after an arrest warrant was issued for her in Tehran, her representative...
Iran’s First Woman Boxer Sadaf Khadem Wins First Amateur Match
Iran’s first woman boxer Sadaf Khadem successfully defeated her French opponent Anne Chauvin in a three-round amateur match on April 13 in the city of Royan in western France.
Khadem lost the first round to...
Boxing-Khadem to Break a Barrier for Iranian Women
By Julien Pretot
ROYAN, France, April 12 (Reuters) - Two years after a clandestine impromptu training session on the hills of Tehran, Sadaf Khadem will become the first Iranian woman to contest an official boxing fight,...
Iranian Coach Deliberately Injures Wrestlers’ Ears in Bizarre Rite of Passage
A wrestling coach in the city of Naghdeh, in the northwestern province of West Azerbaijan, has deliberately and repeatedly bruised cartridges and tissues of six young wrestlers’ ears in what appears to be a...
Iran’s National Basketball Team Advances to FIBA World Cup China 2019
February 25, 2019 - Iran's men’s basketball team defeated its Australian rival 85-74 on February 24 to secure a place at the 2019 FIBA World Cup hosted by China from August 31 to September...
Iranian Judoka Saeed Mollaei Throws Match to Avoid Israeli Opponent
On the second day of the Paris Grand Slam 2019 earlier this month, Saeed Mollaei, an Iranian Judoka in the men’s 81-kilogram division, deliberately threw a match against Kazakhstan’s Ruslan Mussayev to avoid facing...
Soccer-Zenit Sign ‘Iranian Messi’ Azmoun, Colombia’s Barrios
MOSCOW, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Zenit St Petersburg have signed Iran striker Sardar Azmoun from Rubin Kazan and Colombia midfielder Wilmar Barrios from Boca Juniors, the Russian league leaders said on their website https://en.fc-zenit.ru/news/2019-02-01-serdar-azmun-perekhodit-v-zenit-.htm.
The...
Soccer-Queiroz Stands down as Iran Coach After Semi-Final Defeat
By Nick Mulvenney
AL AIN, United Arab Emirates, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Carlos Queiroz said he was standing down after nearly eight years as Iran coach on Monday following his team's 3-0 loss to Japan in the...
Soccer-Iran v Japan – Asian Cup Semi-Final
Jan 27 (Reuters) - Factbox ahead of Monday's Asian Cup semi-final between Iran and Japan:
WHERE & WHEN:
Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium, Al Ain (capacity: 25,053)
Kickoff 6.00pm local time (1400 GMT)
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Chris Beath (Australia)
Assistant referees:...
