Best Iranian Club Friendly ever to be played?

[mangekyou]

Club friendlies are the most pointless matches in all of football. Even worse are those stupid tours/tournaments that Euro clubs participate in North America, East Asia and the Middle East every Summer/Winter.

It's important because it's a great opportunity for our players to get scouted. Karimi for instance was only approached by Bayern after the Iran-Germany friendly.

[pdot]

The Persepolis and Bayern Munich was a farewell match setup for Abedzadeh. If Karimi wasn't a Bayern player it probably would have never happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS51qhN-O7A

[STYX]

Santos with Pele played a ffew games in Iran 1972

[sam20]

Persepolis played Ac Milan in 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycNIPqva414
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/28/sp...all/index.html



Iran has played lots of club teams in unofficial games. These are some of them:

Iran vs QPR 2005 (3-0 to QPR) : https://www.theguardian.com/football...wsstory.sport4
Iran vs Roma 2004 (5-3 to Roma): http://www.payvand.com/news/04/aug/1286.html
Iran vs Roma 1998 (7-1 to Roma) - this game Ivic tried a few different tactics, whatever happened we were prepared for the WC
Iran vs Slavia Prague (1-0 to Slavia) http://www.teammelli.com/sample-page...ague-1-0-iran/

A generally U23 Iran also played Man United in 1977 http://www.teammelli.com/sample-page...d-vs-iran-u23/

A few (but not all), here: http://www.teammelli.com/sample-page...icial-matches/

Thanks for the great info!

The 5-3 Vs roma was a great match.

If I Remeber correctly, daie scored the first goal with a great diving header.

Karimi was amazing, and if he finished the chance where he hit the crossbar, that woulda been one of the nicest goals ever from a TM player. He was amazing during this match!

[DR Strangemoosh]

Thanks for the great info!

The 5-3 Vs roma was a great match.

If I Remeber correctly, daie scored the first goal with a great diving header.

Karimi was amazing, and if he finished the chance where he hit the crossbar, that woulda been one of the nicest goals ever from a TM player. He was amazing during this match!

Indeed, this was one of the matches which cemented Karimi's talents in our minds "He can do this against the best club sides". At the time I kept watching the clip of him scything through the Roma players. It was the same thing as he did against Ireland three years prior, and also the same year 2004 against Germany. I thought with all sincerity: "This is one of the most talented footballers in the world"

https://youtu.be/fRrs1mwa3lA?t=4

In retrospect though, it's hard to discount that this was a friendly. The Roma players were hardly going to bust their arses closing him down. Look at them and how they back down so easily, in the context of a friendly his amazing skill maybe wasn't as special as I/we thought at the time.

Karimi is still a very special player in Iran's history, just not quite the player we thought he was, or could be. Just my humble opinion

[sam20]

Indeed, this was one of the matches which cemented Karimi's talents in our minds "He can do this against the best club sides". At the time I kept watching the clip of him scything through the Roma players. It was the same thing as he did against Ireland three years prior, and also the same year 2004 against Germany. I thought with all sincerity: "This is one of the most talented footballers in the world"

https://youtu.be/fRrs1mwa3lA?t=4

In retrospect though, it's hard to discount that this was a friendly. The Roma players were hardly going to bust their arses closing him down. Look at them and how they back down so easily, in the context of a friendly his amazing skill maybe wasn't as special as I/we thought at the time.

Karimi is still a very special player in Iran's history, just not quite the player we thought he was, or could be. Just my humble opinion

Yeah I 100% agree with all of that. Karimi should have moved to Europe when Atletico Madrid wanted him, but he waited till his late 20's to go to bayern, and just didn't seem professional / motivated enough to go to new heights in Europe.

What a shame, considering he really was one of the most talented players in the world with the ball at the time. He unfortunately didn't take full advantage of the gifts he had.