2022 AFC U-23 Asian Cup

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Can you tell a bit more about momeni? I have not really seen him much, but as you show he has some of most senior mins for anybody in this age group.

ِDear
I recall him from the time he played for Foulad U16-19 and invited for youth national team. Before Nekonal he even played a game at young age during PGL.
He is average built and run well , good at everything good but nothing flashy or fancy . Because he wanted to play he moved to Liq1 at Shahin. His good games was noticed by Zobahan.

Soltanimehr , Khodabandeloo , Momeni all playing for ZOBA now !

His quality playing time in the PGL.

[St_Mark]

This season khodabandelu will join soltanimehr, momeni, kor, estaki at zob ahan.

Monazami also returning from loan at aluminium.



All in the 66 man selection, new young core of Zob.

TarTar effects

This season Zobahan will do well with Tartar and they have recruited somany players and released dozens.
Zobahan will be a new team.
Tartar is a good coach , alas IFF is cheap and will not hire him for youth teams.

[inarsenewetrust]

TarTar effects

This season Zobahan will do well with Tartar and they have recruited somany players and released dozens.
Zobahan will be a new team.
Tartar is a good coach , alas IFF is cheap and will not hire him for youth teams.

it could be more crucial than we think... U23 even in best scenario will not have great time for prep.

To have players that already have experience playing together at club level would be rare and a huge plus, especially a group of midfielders like this (Khodabandelu, Soltanimehr, Momeni) who are 3/5 starter candidates for midfield imo (other two are yasin- for sure starting, and ghobeishavi).

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Can someone tell me why they are going after 22 years old players while they will not be eligible for 2024^?

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Group 2
CB Defenders. One or two of them candidate as Starters.

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it could be more crucial than we think... U23 even in best scenario will not have great time for prep.

To have players that already have experience playing together at club level would be rare and a huge plus, especially a group of midfielders like this (Khodabandelu, Soltanimehr, Momeni) who are 3/5 starter candidates for midfield imo (other two are yasin- for sure starting, and ghobeishavi).

I agree with you on all that , we will talk about others in Group 3 too .
What we experience observing them, study them might not be the way Head coach see in short time. It's difficult and risky to evaluate players in 3 days training as some might have 0ff days.

Although game days are approching fast , in group B we have only one team to defeat Tajikistan at their home. We have enough talents to overcome regardles of few off selections at this time. Coaches will have time to see propspects during PLG games and decide.

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Can someone tell me why they are going after 22 years old players while they will not be eligible for 2024^?

Dear

For This Tournament The AFC U23 2022Qualification ( 2022 AFC U-23 Asian Cup) :
Player eligibility

Players born on or after 1 January 1999 are eligible to compete in the tournament.

Players born on or after 1 January 1999 are eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team have to register a squad of minimum 18 players and maximum 23 players, minimum three of whom must have been goalkeepers (Regulations Article 26.3)

All of our 66 players are eligible.
No points to go with younger and fail to qualify when we meet Korea, Japan, Qatar and KSA. Last time we played Korea they came with 1/3 of National team , they beat us and advanced to Olympic , we came home empty hands.

Let's advance and decide later if younger players manage to get in.
A reminder : last year our U19 lost to Tajikistan U19 , do you expect if we go with our U20 ( same as last year U19) and play their U23 at their home is a wise decision?

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Dear

For This Tournament The AFC U23 2022Qualification ( 2022 AFC U-23 Asian Cup) :
Player eligibility

Players born on or after 1 January 1999 are eligible to compete in the tournament.



All of our 66 players are eligible.
No points to go with younger and fail to qualify when we meet Korea, Japan, Qatar and KSA. Last time we played Korea they came with 1/3 of National team , they beat us and advanced to Olympic , we came home empty hands.

Let's advance and decide later if younger players manage to get in.
A reminder : last year our U19 lost to Tajikistan U19 , do you expect if we go with our U20 ( same as last year U19) and play their U23 at their home is a wise decision?

also its not like they are only including 22 year old lol. This is a 66 player list.

Just from these first couple groups Javadkia, houshmand, fallah, ghobeishavi, khodabandelu, Yasin, Nokhodkar, Hosseinzadeh are all going to be probably important parts of this team and all will be u23 still come paris.

Keep in mind situations like Allahyar, Delfi. Legionairres, they will not be available most likely for camps, some matches.

For CF I am sure everybody would prefer to play somebody solid like Sasan Hosseini in crucial must win game in absence of Allahyar vs say somebody like Barzegar with not much senior football experience/success, only 18y/o. As you say tajiks are coming with multiple ACL starters.

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also its not like they are only including 22 year old lol. This is a 66 player list.
Just from these first couple groups Javadkia, houshmand, fallah, ghobeishavi, khodabandelu, Yasin, Nokhodkar, Hosseinzadeh are all going to be probably important parts of this team and all will be u23 still come paris.
Keep in mind situations like Allahyar, Delfi. Legionairres, they will not be available most likely for camps, some matches.
For CF I am sure everybody would prefer to play somebody solid like Sasan Hosseini in crucial must win game in absence of Allahyar vs say somebody like Barzegar with not much senior football experience/success, only 18y/o. As you say tajiks are coming with multiple ACL starters.

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Out of 66
under 20 :34
Under 21:50

1	Milad	Kor	Zobahan		18y 0m 2d	CB
2	Arya	Barzegar	Fajr		18y 11m 2d	FW
3	Alireza	Monazami	Aluminium		18y 8m 29d	FW
4	Alireza	Bavieh	Foulad		19y 0m 23d	MF
5	Fardin	Rabet	Esteghlal		19y 10m 15d	LW
6	Mehdi	Hasheminejad	Malavan		19y 10m 17d	RW
7	Payam	Parsa	SNA		19y 1m 21d	GK
8	AmirHossein	Nikpour	Sepahan		19y 1m 9d	GK
9	Ahmad	Shariatzadeh	SNA		19y 2m 12d	LW
10	Alireza	Asadabadi	Padideh		19y 2m 17d	RB
11	Behzad	Salami	Tractor		19y 3m 20d	MF
12	Hossein	Shahverdi	Baderan		19y 3m 25d	CB
13	Younes	Akbarpour	Pars		19y 5m 27dLB	LB
14	Yasin	Salmani	Sepahan		19y 6m 16d	MF
15	Hossein	Nokhodkar	Golgohar		19y 6m 19d	LW
16	Mohammadreza	Shakibkho	Shahrdari B		19y 8m 3d	DM
17	Mohammadjavad	Kia	Padideh		20y 0m 14d	GK
18	Amirhossein	Hosseinzadeh	Esteghlal		20y 10m 13d	MF
19	Amirhossein	Farhadi	SNA		20y 10m 30d	LW
20	Murteza	Estaki	Zobahan		20y 1m 19d	CB
21	Ahmadreza	Jalali	Foulad		20y 1m 29d	LB
22	Ali	Zare	Nasaji		20y 3m 29d	LW
23	Sina	Abdollahi	Mashinsazi		20y 3m 29d	CB
24	Mohammadreza	Moharami	Malavan		20y 5m 18d	CB
25	Saaman	Falah	Peykan		20y 6m 0d	CB
26	Parham	Javadi	Chooka		20y 6m 11d	DM
27	Ali	Sobhani	Foulad		20y 6m 30d	RW
28	Asghar	Sadeghinasab	Mes R		20y 6m 5d	DM
29	Saeid	Irankhah	Tractor		20y 7m 0d	CB
30	Mohammad Hossein	Zavari	SNA		20y 7m 1d	MF
31	Alireza	Ebrahimi	Shahin B		20y 7m 25d	LB
32	Amirali	Sadeghi	Saipa		20y 7m 3d	LW
33	Mohammad	Rostami	Navad Urum		20y 8m 27d	MF
34	Mohamadmehdi	Ahmadi	NMS		20y 8m 3d	LB
35	Erfan	Esfandyari	Alumimium		21y 10m 15d	GK
36	Sobhan	Pasandideh	Malavan		21y 10m 17d	LB
37	Vahid	Namdari	Foulad		21y 1m 16d	MF
38	Ali	Fathi	Tractor		21y 3m 27d	LW
39	Seyed Majid	Nasiri	Mes		21y 3m 29d	CB
40	Amir Mohammad	Hooshmand	Aluminium		21y 4m 4d	CB
41	Mohammadreza	Sharifi	Persepolis		21y 6m 11d	MF
42	Mohammad	Ghaderi	Tractor		21y 6m 26d	LW
43	Alireza	Koshki	Peykan		21y 6m 28d	LW
44	Sobhan	Khaghani	Esteghlal		21y 7m 16d	RW
45	Mohammadreza	Ghobeishavi	SNA		21y 7m 19d	MF
46	Mohammad Mehdi	Mohebi	NMS		21y 7m 2d	RW
47	Alireza	Rezaei	Esteghlal		21y 9m 1d	GK
48	Mehdi	Limochi	Qashqai		21y 9m 20d	RW
49	Mohammadreza	Azadi	Esteghlal		21y 9m 6d	FW
50	Mohammadjavad	Azadeh	Peykan		21y 9m 9d	DM
51	Amir	Taher	Mes		22y 0m 18d	LB
52	Mohammad	Khodabandelo	Golgohar		22y 0m 5d	DM
53	Abolfazl	Akasheh	Zobahan		22y 0m 9d	FW
54	Sina	Shahabasi	Foulad		22y 2m 28d	CB
55	Rouhollah	Safavianpour	Qashgaei		22y 3m 16d	MF
56	Sajad	Aghaei	Nasaji		22y 5m 25d	FW
57	Eman	Akbari	Peykan		22y 5m 27d	CB
58	Farzan	Dana	Fajr		22y 5m 27d	FW
59	Danial	Momeni	Zobahan		22y 6m 21d	MF
60	Ali	Darakhshan	Havadar		22y 6m 26d	LB
61	Amirmehdi	Janmaleki	Nasaji		22y 7m 11d	CB
62	Homan	Rebizadeh	Mes		22y 7m 22d	CB
63	Reza	Khaksaz	Qashqaei		22y 7m 22d	GK
64	Mohammad	Soltanimehr	Zobahan		22y 7m 8d	DM
65	Sasan	Hosseini	Golgohar		22y 8m 11d	FW
66	Amirmohammad	Monsef	Ryka		25y 3m 7d	FW

[St_Mark]

List off 66 include 2 Sina and listed them both as Mashinsazi players and From Azarbaijan .Sina Shahabbasi play for Foulad and last year played for Damash Gilan in Liq1.

Both are good CB players with little experience as RB. Both played 7 games for requalar season while Shahabbasi played last year in Azadegan league, Shahabbasi also played great games in Hazi cup versus Seapahan and Estaghlal for Hazi cup championship in addition to games at ACL.
Abdollahi was invited for U16-19 and Shahabbasi for U23 in the past.

Now that there are not enough RB in the list may be one of them shoulod be considered for RB if he fit.

[St_Mark]

Mohammad Shrifi is only Persepolis player in list of 66. He has been more like a average player last two season and not getting much playing time at Rec club.
He need to improve.
Most experience MF player in the list

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Mohammad Shrifi is only Persepolis player in list of 66. He has been more like a average player last two season and not getting much playing time at Rec club.
He need to improve.
Most experience MF player in the list

Im not really a fan of his game, as a midfielder he lacks any real identity.
He is not a good passer, nor does he have high IQ or game vision to be a creative deep player or advanced midfielder.

He lacks physical characteristics to really impact game as box to box or defensive player.

For DM/CM there is Ghobeishavi who covers a lot of ground and is technically strong for iranian standards, plus actually quite a low center of gravity, good in 1v1 situations, and a leader from u17, regular for SNA. There is Soltanimehr who is one of the best physically, very tall with great technique in long passing, shooting, solid defensive awareness. There is Khodabandelu who is very aggressive, strong, and solid passer who also runs a ton. Momeni who is also all rounder profile but regular in league unlike Sharifi.

I think those 4 are all ahead of him for sure, and probably some others too.

I guess before his main strength was late runs from deep into box, he had good finishing instinct and shot. But since moving to senior level he struggles to show that, I think bc physically nemikeshe so to speak.

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Im not really a fan of his game, as a midfielder he lacks any real identity.
He is not a good passer, nor does he have high IQ or game vision to be a creative deep player or advanced midfielder.

He lacks physical characteristics to really impact game as box to box or defensive player.

For DM/CM there is Ghobeishavi who covers a lot of ground and is technically strong for iranian standards, plus actually quite a low center of gravity, good in 1v1 situations, and a leader from u17, regular for SNA. There is Soltanimehr who is one of the best physically, very tall with great technique in long passing, shooting, solid defensive awareness. There is Khodabandelu who is very aggressive, strong, and solid passer who also runs a ton. Momeni who is also all rounder profile but regular in league unlike Sharifi.

I think those 4 are all ahead of him for sure, and probably some others too.

I guess before his main strength was late runs from deep into box, he had good finishing instinct and shot. But since moving to senior level he struggles to show that, I think bc physically nemikeshe so to speak.

Dear

This camp and selection is base on past performances and selection will be base on:
Current condition
Last year performance
He is in good physical condition but he has not played to be judged last year as a result he will not be consider for A team nevertheless I think he will be included in extended list.
Case of Bavieh is kind of similar. Regardless of his skilss and talents, he was playing in U9 ( top gun) league not against PGL therefore little chance for him untill PGL star and he can shine. He is the best shooting OMF n 2pa.

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I did not see few players ( Janmaleke, Nokhodkar , Shahabbasi ...) in traning photos.

Today Foulad had training session and Shahabbasi and Namdari were with Foulad.
Namdari is in group 3 but Shahabbasi in group one . !!



He is sitting in front of Vali

I see Savari, Anafche , Musavi from Fould u21 ( they were not invited)

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MIS's Sasan Hosseini