Estaki on verge of joining German handball team

[Nariman]

[Team e Mardom]

germany's league is the best in the world! wish him all the best

[maniei]

yessss!!!!!!!

thats definitely great news.

germany is the strongest league in the world and gummersbach is one of its strongest teams.

I think they also hold the world record on the highest attendance ever in a handball team.

allahkaram is a very weird name, but he is a handsome guy. he will represent us well.

his handball playing must be good as well.
otherwise this move wouldnt have happened
and also there is this vid on youtube with the iranian handball team. they were not that strong, but they had some strong player. and the strong players were the youngest at the same time.

[maniei]

he has 3 months to prove what he is made of.

in these 3 month he will be released for 2 weeks to take part at the junior world cup in egypt.

if he cant make it, its not a disaster. he is 21 years old.
he already has 36 caps for the senior national team, and 25 for the junior team

[maniei]

he is on the squad picture as well



more pics



(he appaears in pic 3, 14, 16, 24 and partly on some more)

http://www.vfl-gummersbach.de/index2...s&news_id=1927

[El-Presidente]

nice

[maniei]

some extra information from the teams site:

-he plays for foulad sepahan
-he is a sports student
-he is 1,95m tall, he weighs 95 kg
-he can play in the offense, defense, on the left and in the center. he is famous for his throughs from farer distance

-this trial was made possible by gummersbachs physiotherapist "mori azghandi", who follows iranian handball. he had introduced esteki to the staff.
he says that the iranian league is about as strong as the 3rd german league, but he thinks that esteki can make it if he is able to access the potential he has.

-its preseason and during his trial the team will mostly train condition. but that doesnt scare him at all. he just arrived from the national team wc preperation and is in very good shape.

http://www.vfl-gummersbach.de/index2...s&news_id=1923

[DJ Alborz]

best of luck to him! Really hope he does well in europe!

[princeofpersia1]

This is amazingly good news. People keep supporting and following his progress.

[Irannn]

his younger brother is the best scorer of world youth Cup in Tunisia !

http://wchyouth09tun.ihf.info/exchan.../TOPSCORER.pdf

[maniei]

[maniei]

the junior handball world championship took place in eqypt.
iran ranked 17th out of 24 teams. germany won the whole thing.

in the preliminary round iran was grouped with brazil (1st), france (2nd), spain (3rd), norway (4th), and tunisia (6th).
iran reached the 5th place (understandably) and failed to make it to the main round (only the top 3 teams did).
(iran won 2 games. they defeated tunisia and spain!)

iran then had 2 other placement matches, which they both won against qatar and greenland.
so in the end iran became 17th, the strongest 5th ranked team of the tournament, proving that an other group than the group of death they were in would have took them further.

http://wchjunior09egy.ihf.info/excha...df/SUMMARY.pdf


allahkaram esteki (22) played in that tournament as well. he was the 3rd best scorer in his team (45th in the overall tournament scorer ranking)

allahkarams young brother sajad esteki (20) played in that tournament too.
and judged by the statistics he was even better than his brother.
he was the top scorer of the iranian team and ranked 6th in the overall tournament scorer ranking!!!

http://wchjunior09egy.ihf.info/excha...f/IRITOTAL.pdf
http://wchjunior09egy.ihf.info/excha.../TOPSCORER.pdf


http://www.ihf.info/front_content.php?idcat=317

[maniei]

before the junior world cup (I think u23), there was the youth world cup (I think u21)
iran ranked 10th out of 20 teams there.
sajad esteki was the top scorer of that tournament

http://www.ihf.info/front_content.php?idcatart=2382

[Super Shojaei]

great news , hopefully this will be the start of irans handball sucess, hopefully we will make the 1016 olympics.

[IranPowned]

I play also Handball in Belgium Under 16 Team