2014 FILA Wrestling Greco Roman World Cup - Tehran 15-16 May

[Adesor Vafaseya]

Tomorrow, 15th May the FILA Greco Roman World Cup starts in Tehran. It was originally scheduled to be held in February in Tyumen Russia (a month before the Freestyle World Cup in Los Angeles) but due to Sochi winter games, FILA postponed it to May to be held in Tehran.

Groups are as follows:

Group A:
Russia
Hungary
United States
Turkey
Kazakhstan

Group B:
Iran
South Korea
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Finland

Good news for Iran, Mohammad Bana is back as head-coach.
The man who made Iran's Greco Roman shine in recent years...
Last year we lost the Greco Roman title to Russia in the finals (also in Tehran) without our Olympics Wrestlers and without coach Bana (all boycotted TM due to AN's broken promises not rewarding the wrestlers...)... Now coach Bana and some of the Olympians are back!

EDITED: Mohammad Bana resigned again...

Lets wish them luck and hope that we win "the double" this year!
(we won Freestyle world cup already last March in Los Angeles).

[Irannn]

Good news for Iran, Mohammad Bana is back as head-coach.
The man who made Iran's Greco Roman shine in recent years...

Dude you didn't follow the news , he left the team after the Asian Championships. and later all of his wrestlers also left the national camp to support him. they joined the camp later per his request but still missed few days of valuable training and all of them (except Ghasem Rezaei) will wrestle here.

here is our roster

59 kg - Hamid Sourian and Mohammad Nourbakhsh
66 kg - Omid Norouzi and Afshin Biabangard
71 kg - Saeid Abdevali and Boroumand Aslan
75 kg - Farshad Alizadeh and Hadi Alizadeh
80 kg - Habibollah Akhlaghi and Mehdi Mohammadi
85 kg - Taleb Nematpour and Davoud Akhbari
98 kg - Mehdi Aliyari and Davoud Abedinzadeh
130 kg - Bashir Babajanzadeh and Behnam Mehdizadeh

[Adesor Vafaseya]

Dude you didn't follow the news , he left the team after the Asian Championships. and later all of his wrestlers also left the national camp to support him. they joined the camp later per his request but still missed few days of valuable training and all of them (except Ghasem Rezaei) will wrestle here.

thanks I didnt know about that.

Sh!t...
so he is not coaching at the world cup?
who is our Greco coach then?

[Adesor Vafaseya]

it started.

live stream: www.footballitarin.com

[Hadi]

That Abdovali guy is a freaking Bear


look how he lifted the poor Azeri dude twice

[Irannn]

thanks I didnt know about that.
Sh!t...
so he is not coaching at the world cup?
who is our Greco coach then?

Nasser Nourbakhsh, former Bana's assistant and his current enemy #1 but they probably only picked him because he is good with most of these wrestlers. they most probably will change the coach after the world cup.

Iran 8-0 Azerbaijan

for whatever reason Azerbaijan's coach didn't use some of his best wrestlers against Iran ! Azerbaijan has an Iranian coaching group (another former Bana's assistant as head coach) plus two Iranian wrestlers (Saman Tahmasebi and Sabah Shariati), surprisingly none of them wrestled against Iran. it seems they just gave up even before the dual. They are using their A team against Armenia in 2nd round and destroying them, I can't understand why they didn't even try against Iran. !

[Irannn]

Iran 7 - South Korea 1

next Finland in 2 hours

[oldcoach]

Iran 8 - Finland 0

[Persian-Pride87]

Iran will face Russia in the final. The match will be tomorrow at 6pm local time in Tehran.

It will be a very close match. I think Iran is a lock to win at 3 of the weights and Russia is a lock to win at 2 of the weights. I think it will come down to the lighter weight classes
( 59Kg/66Kg weights ).

We won the FS world cup this year and winning the greco would be awesome.

I hope we can eliminate all this drama from our sports, especially wrestling. We have been on top of the FS world and a bit surprisingly on top of the greco world as well in the past few years (thanks to the legend Mr. Bana)

[Nader25]

Armestan ra ham lat o par kardan

[Kaveh11]

Here's a nice overview, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_FI...7s_Greco-Roman

[Ali.Karimi79]

Just hope we don't choke in the finals like we did in Futsal.
We dominated the whole tournament and failed in the finals.
-.-

[oldcoach]

iran 6 - russia. 2

[Irannn]

Iran 6 - Russia 2

nice win

[_Navid_]

Can you believe it?!!!!! In the deciding match of the final IRIB2 suddenly decides to cut the coverage and play their news. Screw IR.