Sepahan/Zobahan Fan Thread

[Doctor DOOM]

WTF ?

a jordanian ref for a game in syria ?
why go to the trouble, AFC?
might as well appoint a syrian ref. !!!!

[maij]

A win by Sepahan wil l be a tremendous result and I frankly think it will be the platform for their qualification.

GO Sepahan.....Go

[TM-Fan]

Why not ? what does it say ? Bahadoranis is so important.

Bahadorani is suspended, Mohammadi is injured.

[Kaveh]

[Ahad]

WTF ?
a jordanian ref for a game in syria ?
why go to the trouble, AFC?
might as well appoint a syrian ref. !!!!

Another move by smartasses in Arab Football Conspiracy let by Ben Hammal.
I don't think this will ever end without serious objections......East Asians seem to care less about it because they don't face Arab team as much as Iran, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, or Tajikistan do.

[Arashi_Washi]

If Sepahan win's This match then i belive they will have qualified...
But we will have to keep our mind on the job as Viera said, Its CRUCIAL, ANYTHING besides a win really is going to make everything tough.....

I also belive Kuruvchi will struggle against Al-Ittehad....

But we need to do our job watever happens in the other match, We need a win

Inshallah they will get the win

[shayan20]

We have to win, that's the only option we have if we want to qualify.
I also hope kuruvchi can get a draw against saudi, that will make things easier for us.

[Kaveh]

"We scored two correct goals and the referee denied us the lead early in the game which affected the players," said Vieira.

[hamidr316]

Bye Bye sepahan, sad to see such clubs can not represent Iran's football in Asia.(Baz dame Saipa garm)

[persian-eagle-13]

Bye Bye sepahan, sad to see such clubs can not represent Iran's football in Asia.(Baz dame Saipa garm)

i am sensing someone is happy about seeing sepahan out!!! don't worry they will be back in ACL for next season,either as a IPL champs or Hazfi champs

[shayan20]

Bye Bye sepahan, sad to see such clubs can not represent Iran's football in Asia.(Baz dame Saipa garm)

Perspolis would have done 10 times worth than Sepahan. They would embaress us against thai or vietnamese teams

[shayan20]

great editorial from ISP that summarises this game and how sepahan didn't make it our of the group.

Editorial: Shame on you AFC

ISP: A heroically fighting Sepahan beat twice Champions League champions Al Ittihad of Saudi Arabia back to back despite fighting against injuries to key players and despite fighting an inhuman match schedule. When they flew to Syria to set up a deciding last home game against Kuruvchi they thought they would only have to fight against eleven opposite players, but that wasn’t enough, they also had to fight against an entire refereeing team and against an entire team behind the team.



AFC had hand-picked a team of referees from Syria’s neighbour Jordan to take charge of the game. Sepahan coach Jorvan Viera had expressed his concerns prior to the game that for obvious reasons the wrong referees had been picked for the crucial game. In his worst nightmare though he couldnt have expected two disallowed goals, 25 simulated injuries, about 50 yellow cards that were not given and only four pathetic minutes added in the second half.

Let’s not start with what everybody saw was a 100 % correct and onside goal scored by Seyed Salehi, but with the countless many times the ball was kicked or thrown away by the Syrian team after the whistle had been heard. This action, to kick the ball away on purpose of delaying the opponent free kick or throw in should according to the rules of the game be dealt with by giving out a yellow card. The referees totally ignored these bahaviours throughout, not to mention all the times the players simulated injuries, which also should be punished with a yellow card. The countless many simulated injuries and the many substitutions during the second half gave only an unbelievable four minutes of stoppage time, for what should have been a number of minutes closer to 40 than 4!

Worst of all though was the onside goal scored by Seyed Salehi who everybody including the assistant referee saw was onside, since the attacker was clearly onside before and long after the shot by Abolheil was taken, and hence never close to an offside position, still though the goal was disallowed for an offside created by the assistant referee from Jordan. Not long after yet another Sepahan goal was disallowed for offside, the TV pictures couldn’t for sure tell whether it was or not, however Mr Fanaei, who was one of the linesmen in 1994 World Cup, claimed on the Iranian TV that it was likely to be onside rather than offside after watching the pictures more closely.

Sepahan was robbed a quarterfinal place, a place in the last eight they fully deserved, and would have reached if they would have rightfully won tonight. What AFC or no one else though can take away from this campaign is the amazing progress and development of rising star Ehsan Hajsafi. The 18 year old looked out of this world for a 17-year-old Iranian just months ago, now he’s even better, better than sensational and better than the biggest Asian talent out there…

"We scored two correct goals and the referee denied us the lead early in the game which affected the players," said Vieira.

[Doctor DOOM]

I am proud of sepahan and their valiant effort.

a lot of stuff went against them today and many thing were not fair.
but I say it is good to know you're out NOW , with 3 league games left, than spread urself wide along 3 fronts and then end up losing the league AND the ACL .

khialeshoon rahat shod.

bravo sepahan.


I just hope for next season, they get rid of a few useless players like kazemi and hire at least one VERY GOOD striker.
I assume the new Iraqi fellow is the replacement for moharam, which is an excellent move ... if the fellow is even half as good as moharam.


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as for the behavior of syrians, ... well, that arab , mentality for you.
this is not a racist comment. it's just stating a fact.
this kind of dirty unsporting behavior is in the arab genes.
I urge all the biology and medical researchers to get together and actually genetically test arabs from all middle east and finally put a rest to the theories.
do they have an extra chromosome that compels them to "play dirty" ?

[hamidr316]

Hamash referee referee,
referee ke nagoft 2 ta bazie avvaletun ro bebazin!!!
Az mast ke bar mast!

[hamidr316]

Perspolis would have done 10 times worth than Sepahan. They would embaress us against thai or vietnamese teams

Even Sanat Naft would do better then sepahan, they disgraced our football.