TM-News-

[Martin-Reza]

With Ando and Ebrahimi out, I'd like to see Pouraliganji given a try in the DM position. Position wise he could be the new Golmohammadi, but strangely he has not played even a minute as DM in TM yet.

[irani8perspolis]

As someone who has been to most of those games I can tell you that your understanding is incorrect. If you don't believe me look it up. Iran vs Uzbekistan had 40,000 when they played in Tehran in the last round of the 2014 wcq. There are many teams people don't feel compelled to go to the stadium in Tehran. That's been a gripe of CQ and TM for years.

As for Tabriz, your conclusion is the same as someone concluding Iranians are all crazy because they are avid followers of news on Iran and have seen how Iranians behave. You only receive the negative news. You do know that Tractor isn't the main team in Tabriz right? And that their fans don't represent all Tabrizis right?

Fans all accross the country have behaved poorly. How many times have Basijis almost gotten us fined for their antics at Azadi? How many people have died at Azadi!?! Was it 9 agaisnt Japan 10 years ago? I mean if we were to compare incidents I'm fairly certain Azadi has every stadium beat.

Rugs jan, we had:

100k v. Qatar
100k v. Korea
44k v. Uzbekistan
100k v. Lebanon

Also the only reason we had 44k against Uzbekistan was because it was in middle of November and pouring rain! Other than that we would have had another 100k. 44k in that weather is something no other Asian team could manage. Also in the this round we sold out against Turkmenistan and Oman (bottom half) and had 30k against India. Only Japan and Cambodia had higher than us in the first round and the only reason for that was because we could only fit 35k into Azadi!

[irani8perspolis]

According to Fars News, TM will have another two summer training camps
June 19th until June 29th: Armenia camp
July 2nd until July 17th: Austria camp

http://90tv.ir/news/256932/%D8%A8%D8...85%D8%A7%D9%87

Hopefully we can play Armenia during the Armenia camp, that would be a decent friendly.

[rugs]

I'm not even sure we would sell out against Bahrain. Against South Korea we sell out on important games, like in the last edition of the wcq. And I don't see why you're using the argument it's not Tehran's team, almost every team in the world plays in their capital, except for some teams who have no real home arena and play in different arenas like Spain. Other than that I'd love to see TM play in Tabriz, since I believe it would gather a large crowd since they don't get too many home games and cause they (at least in Tractor's ACL games) create a scary atmosphere for the opponent team.

We sold out agaisnt Bahrain, I was there. For time being we will always sell out agaisnt them because basijis will buy half the tickets to make political statements.

I'm all for some games being played in Tehran, but not all of them! That's why I said that. I dont think any country with as many big cities as Iran playes 100% of their games in one city. I don't think the US plays any games in Washington DC, they rotate in many cities. People who have lived in other countires can comment too. Same with Germany and Turkey, I dont think most of their games are played in Berlin and Ankara.

[rugs]

Jahanbaksh and Ansarifard on tv3 to discuss CL final

[rugs]

Lol, you are free to select a mentally unstable man as the coach of your team. I'm not saying that Majidi will be an amazing coach, but I will take a young Majidi with potential over a man who is basically a ticking time bomb on the sideline. If you wanted to say that Majidi is/will be a bad coach, choosing MK as his superior probably wasn't the best idea. MK from 15 years ago, sure, but not the man we currently know.

Technically he is mote qualified!

From what I've seen of Majidi, he doesnt seem mentally stable either. Remember when he tried to pretend he didnt know Jahanbakhsh!

[ehsan singapore]

According to Fars News, TM will have another two summer training camps

June 19th until June 29th: Armenia camp
July 2nd until July 17th: Austria camp

http://90tv.ir/news/256932/%D8%A8%D8...85%D8%A7%D9%87

is a good camp we can play armenia there hopefully and in july we can meet a european team hopefully even though will be hard, as clubs will have most of the players, unless is fifa dates

[rugs]

Rugs jan, we had:

100k v. Qatar
100k v. Korea
44k v. Uzbekistan
100k v. Lebanon

Also the only reason we had 44k against Uzbekistan was because it was in middle of November and pouring rain! Other than that we would have had another 100k. 44k in that weather is something no other Asian team could manage. Also in the this round we sold out against Turkmenistan and Oman (bottom half) and had 30k against India. Only Japan and Cambodia had higher than us in the first round and the only reason for that was because we could only fit 35k into Azadi!

That's even more of a reason to move the games to other cities! Half empty stadiums are terrible!

I don't get it, are you guys agaist non-Tehranis having the chance to see TM live?

We also had

11k vs Guam

20k vs Maldives

50k vs Qatar

[BacheLot]

With Ando and Ebrahimi out, I'd like to see Pouraliganji given a try in the DM position. Position wise he could be the new Golmohammadi, but strangely he has not played even a minute as DM in TM yet.

yea thats odd
he also comes across to me a far better prospect for DM, than CB..!!

he coulda been a good combative DM replacement for the aging Ando in TM, but now im not so sure he will amount up to shitt after committing his career to gutter..!!
With the absence of the sarbaz (CM options) we will sorely miss Ebrahimi's offensive passing contributions and the connecting of our D to Attack..! i suppose Saeed must now shoulder even more responsibilities on that front..!

[Camran khan]

We sold out agaisnt Bahrain, I was there. For time being we will always sell out agaisnt them because basijis will buy half the tickets to make political statements.

I'm all for some games being played in Tehran, but not all of them! That's why I said that. I dont think any country with as many big cities as Iran playes 100% of their games in one city. I don't think the US plays any games in Washington DC, they rotate in many cities. People who have lived in other countires can comment too. Same with Germany and Turkey, I dont think most of their games are played in Berlin and Ankara.

Cool. Didn't know that, but we have played Bahrain many times, which one did we sell out? Or did we do it in all the games vs them?

And like I said, some teams have a home arena the always play in, like Sweden where I live, others, like the ones you mentioned, rotate, also like Spain that I mentioned.


Other than that I'm all for variety and think it's great if we play in Tabriz.

[Kiarash]

Cool. Didn't know that, but we have played Bahrain many times, which one did we sell out? Or did we do it in all the games vs them?
And like I said, some teams have a home arena the always play in, like Sweden where I live, others, like the ones you mentioned, rotate, also like Spain that I mentioned.
Other than that I'm all for variety and think it's great if we play in Tabriz.

[sarbaz]

Armenia beat Guatemala 7-1 yesterday in a friendly match ??!!

[rugs]

Cool. Didn't know that, but we have played Bahrain many times, which one did we sell out? Or did we do it in all the games vs them?
And like I said, some teams have a home arena the always play in, like Sweden where I live, others, like the ones you mentioned, rotate, also like Spain that I mentioned.
Other than that I'm all for variety and think it's great if we play in Tabriz.

I was at the 6-0 game and the place was packed. But a good portion of it were Basijis. They were on the bottom level and started burning flags and yelling political slogans. It was when the Bahrain gov't was cracking down on Shia protesters. It was the first time I had ever seen police oppose basijis. When regular fans started fighting with the basijis, the police came and escorted them out.

Typically the stadium fills up against most Arab teams with a have a bad history with.

[saadat_abad]

Well Macedonia is currently playing Azerbaijan and they are up 2-0 in the 40th minute . As expected one of the goals is scored by pandev.

[DJ Alborz]

Armenia beat Guatemala 7-1 yesterday in a friendly match ??!!

Guatemala treated as a friendly for the hispanic community in California (where the match happened)
and their team was using it as moneygrab, to get paid by the AEG Group who organised it...

Armenia, however, were very competitive and played as if it was a world cup qualifying match... A lot of fouls and competitive play.

Heres some of the highlights -

EDIT: Also Mikhtaryan (Dortmund player) was absolutely amazing. A truely great hat-trick by him.