TM-News- Vol. 4

[enikoravesh]

GREECE-IRAN FRIENDLY FALLS BY THE WAYSIDE

The recent cancellation of Greece’s proposed friendly with Iran scheduled for June 2 came as a surprise to many, with the main stumbling block being the location and ongoing tensions between Greece and Turkey.

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Although the match was scheduled since February to take place in Istanbul, where Iran played a friendly against Turkey on Monday, Turkey’s arrest and detention of two Greek soldiers on the Evros border in March posed problems for the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO).

EPO president Evangelos Grammenos told his counterparts in Iran that Greece would not be traveling to Turkey, and instead invited them to play the match in Athens at Panionios’ Nea Smyrni stadium.

This offer was refused by the Iran FA for two reasons. A trip to Athens did not fit with their World Cup warm-up preparations, and secondly Iran could not play in a televised match in which visible sponsors would be advertisements for betting and alcoholic beverages. Since both of Greece’s main sponsors are from the betting and alcohol industries, the two parties could not come to an agreement.

Both teams wanted to play the match desperately and sought help from FIFA, who told the two nations to make their own agreement together. At this point both parties decided to cancel the fixture.

http://www.agonasport.com/agonasport...by-the-wayside

[enikoravesh]

to be fair to IFF it is a bitch to travel there to play the game, plus greece was the one that pulled out, so its not our fault at all. the rest of the reasons is just shameful on our side lol

[GolfePersique]

If we play Kosovo, we can get ourselves into trouble with Serbia who have recently lifted their visa requirements for Iranians.

Stupid IRIB, why can't they use their super-censorship technology to blur the adds same as with AS Roma wolf tits?!

[Leicester City]

We should play the USA in a friendly again

[KeonKish]

If we play Kosovo, we can get ourselves into trouble with Serbia who have recently lifted their visa requirements for Iranians.

Stupid IRIB, why ca'tthey use their super-censorship technology to blur the adds same as the AS Roma wold tits?!

Serbia won’t do shit, Kosovo is an internationally recognized nation


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[Nokhodi]

Considering it's a very last minute replacement, Kosovo wouldn't be bad. They have a decent squad according to Wiki.

The most important thing, however, is how will IRIB commentators pronounce Kosovo? Kisovo? Kasovo?

KoZovo.

[Foolad Khuzestan]

Kosovo would be a great friendly.


Seriously, they beat Albania 3-0 some days ago and nearly all of their squad plays somewhere in smaller european clubs, i mean not greece quality but still great for a team that NEEDS friendlies

[Camran khan]

Love that logic. We beat South Korea twice, but they're better than us lmao.

Lol last time South Korea scored on us I had just started high school.. Now I've graduated from University.

[toopchi]

http://drenicapress.info/kosova-perb...oterorin-2018/

i'm sorry, i dont speak kosovian. good news tho

[toopchi]

heres the translation

And, following the annulment of the Ivory Coast's friendship, the Kosovo Football Federation is making efforts to find an adversary for the next friendly, to be held this week.

So far, the option was Congo and Moldova, but recently the third option has come out.

The news has been announced today for the "Voice" Kosovo selector, Bernard Challandes.

"I do not know if we will play on Saturday or not, because the game with Ivory Coast has been canceled. This implies that we will practice today, but we do not know whether it is preparation for the second game or it is just a preparation for the future, "said the Swiss coach for the newspaper.

"If we have no opponents for the weekend, on Friday all players can go home and enjoy the holidays. Or, if we go to Turkey, on Friday we run in the morning and in the evening we play against Iran, because this team is looking for an opponent for preparation for the Russian World Cup. It would be a pretty good opponent. So we have two choices: either prepare for September when we are looking forward to the League of Nations, or to play the friendly of June, "Challandes added to" Voice "

[Abtin]

Khodaya PLEASE make this happen, I will take ANY friendly now!!!! We need this BADLY!!
Here's the source from Wikipedia: https://www.korneri.net/zyrtare-kjo-...s-ndaj-iranit/

I asked a Kosovo-Albanian friend if he can make any sense of thise, and if there is any sign of confirmation in any of the two sources we have posted here.

Hahah and this from the same site seems to say something about the cancelation of Greece match due to alcohol sponsor, and that Iran now have their eyes on Kosovo: https://www.korneri.net/keni-ne-spon...afron-kosoven/

[irani8perspolis]

Kosovo are a a lot better team than many people realize. They struggled in World Cup qualifying mainly because it was their first qualifying round together. In their current squad they have a lot of players who play in the Swiss league, and a handful that play in Belgium, Croatia, Holland, and Germany. They are a competitive team and it will be a good test no doubt.

[GolfePersique]

They actually have some decent players including:

Arbër Zeneli (Herenveen) who assisted many of Gucci's goals
Bernard Berisha - Akhmat (Milmo team mate)
Amir Rrahmani- Dinamo Zagreb
Ardian Ismajli - Haiduk Split
Mërgim Vojvoda - Mouscron Belgium
Milot Rashica - Werder Bremen
Edon Zhegrova - Genk
Gjelbrim Taipi- Grasshopers Swiss
Donis Avdijaj - Roda Kerkrade

Definitely a good test if they play their main squad.
Yesterday they defeated Albania 3-0!
A decent Albanian team who defeated us 1-0 not very long time ago.

[darvish_gorgali]

So apparently iran is playing kosovo on Sunday. It's confirmed by Kosovo Football federation.

[Abtin]

Their football federation president is expected to confirm soon whether the match will take place or not! The Kosovo team is in Switzerland now.