Down the memory lane : Iran football in the seventies.

[BehzadB]

You probably meant Rastakheeze Khoramshahr right? I think their star player was Beshkar.

Yes it was.. it was Majid Beshkar... there was Karim Beshkar as well.. his brother.. but Majid was just something else.. there was KhademPeer also.. the tall forward who scored a lot of goals for Rastakheez.. both of which were on TM list and If I am not mistaking, both were on the bench in Argentina, 1978..

I never forgave Mohajerani for not giving Beshkar a chance.. specially that we didn't have Rowshan...

I remember (though I was very young back then) people saying that Beshkar was selected to the world team when he was playing Omeed (or javanan) ... and that was a great achievement back then.. although I can't confirm that this happened , but I remember people talking about it... either way he was a super talent.. a super talent that went absolutely to waste.. and now, he could use even $2. that's right.. even 2000 toman

about Khodayaree, again, I remember (without confirmation) people saying that he was an Iraqi , by birth and that prevented him from ever playing for Iranian national team...

good old days...

thanks agha majid for the trip to the old days... and yes I remember that 2-1 Kuwait game .. but I was watching it sitting at home.. and I remember Roshanzadeh reporting it.. when Behtash Fariba scored, there is a delay before Roshanzadeh realizes it was a goal.. a delay for about a second or so... I remember jumping up and down before him..

[maij]

Safar Iranpak

Perspolis visted Bahrain around 1973 for a friendly match. Their flight home was delayed for about aweek in which we had plenty of time to see the players booth at the hotel and practise ground where they were training.

Here is a shot with Safar Iranpak...

[maij]

Keep it coming guys...I am quite thrilled to read these memories and hear the name of heros.

[BehzadB]

^^ nice picture...

I am wondering, are you the guy standing on the left??

[maij]

One of my the best memories was when Taj Club visted Bahrain in 1973. They played against Bahrain National Team and won 3-0 , in the second match they played the League champion and won 2-0. Rowshan , a young player at the time was the star of both matches. He just ran circles around the defenders and his pace was like a Gazzale. I was sitting on the bench with Taj players at the time chatting mostly to Mazloomi (who didnt play due to an injury) and an Iranian reporter who asked me all sort of questions , most not even related to sport and then I was invited to accompany them to the dressing room.

Someone kindly took these pictures with Mazloomi , Rowshan and me. The funniest thing that cracked me up in the dressing room was when Rykov , the Yugoslav coach , got pissed off with one of the defenders and in his accented Farsi shouted at him " Chera mizari in Siah azt rad besheh ..." he was refering to a dark Bahraini winger !

Mazloomi. Rowshan , Akbari ( who was also chatting with me ) and most of the players were absloutely grand people. The only one I did not like was Jabbari...he seemed very arrogant and after the end of the match when many fans were waiting to greet Taj players before taking the coach back to the hotel , Jabbari was the only one that pushed the crowds away....while rest of the Taj players were extremely accomodating .

[zzgloo]

Noori Khodayari, actualy more of a juggler than a player, as his style was puting the bottom of his shoe on top of the ball, and confuse the opponant by rolling the ball underneath his foot back and forth,and turning around and do the same away from the opponant.....he used to confuse and tire opponant, yet he did not have any speed,nor scapeing ability,nor was he much of a passer.
On other memories,
...my next door nighbor was " hafez tahooni ", the keeper of Rah-Ahan.....he was a very nice guy,and hated ali parvin....

Although they were about 4 years older than me,I played with massod mojdehi and his brother abbas ,who was also a very good player,in our high school in abbas abad ( Dabirestan e farokh-manesh ).

Bahram mavedat, the keeper of perspolise, was very good looking,and I often used to see him with different girls,in club harlem, in maydane mohseni.

Although,I was taji, but, the teams I also liked were Homa, with very advanced type of play, and darayee which could have tied any game, even against German national team !!!

[maij]

^^ nice picture...

I am wondering, are you the guy standing on the left??

2nd right.

[BehzadB]

2nd right.

I should have waited a bit longer for you to post the other pictures ..

It must have been awesome to be around those guys...

[BehzadB]

..... and darayee which could have tied any game, even against German national team !!!

LOOL.. yes they would..

[maij]

I should have waited a bit longer for you to post the other pictures ..

It must have been awesome to be around those guys...

Yeah.... It was like a dream when Taj came over , a really nice bunch of players.


I was barely 16 years old , yet taller than Rowshan.

[maij]

Noori Khodayari, actualy more of a juggler than a player, as his style was puting the bottom of his shoe on top of the ball, and confuse the opponant by rolling the ball underneath his foot back and forth,and turning around and do the same away from the opponant.....he used to confuse and tire opponant, yet he did not have any speed,nor scapeing ability,nor was he much of a passer.!!!

That's true...he lacked stamina and pace , which was a shame.

[maij]

Asian Games 1974

Here is a picture taken by myself in Araymehr Stadium in the Grand Opening of the Asian Games.

[maij]

I remember that Israel sport group marched in seperately from the others heavily surrounded by machine-gun weilding security guards in plain cloth.

The machine guns looked like Uzzi !

[Kavian]

^ Damet garm.
Here is a simple way: click on "new post", then look below the editing window for "manage attachments", click on that, it allows you to browse thru you local files, select the one you want to upload, and then press upload. If the pic is too big, it will exceed the maximum allowed. In that case you can go to "paint" or any other photoshop software and reduce the size and try again ...

Thanks Mansour Jaan -- will follow the instructions.

k.

[Kavian]

here are some pictures .. Enjoy!