Carlos Queiroz calls up 38 for Armenia camp

Mehr News – TEHRAN, The head coach of Iran’s national football team, Carlos Queiroz, named 38 players to form his squad for the preparatory 10-day trip of the Cheetahs to Armenia.

The following players have been invited to the preparatory trip of Iran’s national football team to Armenia by Carlos Queiroz, as the official website of Iran Federation of football announced on Thursday:

1) Alireza Haghighi
2) Alireza Beiranvand
3) Mohammadreza Akhbari
4) Rashid Mazaheri
5) Danial mahini
6) Ramin Rezaeian
7) Pouria Ghafouri
8) Pejman Montazeri
9) Morteza Pourali Ganji
10) Mohammad Tayyebi
11) Ezzatollah Pourghaz
12) Jalal Hosseini
13) Mohammad Hossein Kan’anizadegan
14) Milad Mohammadi
15) Ehsan Hajisafi
16) Mohammad Ansari
17) Hashem Beikzadeh
18) Saeid Aghaei
19) Andranik Teymourian
20) Omid Ebrahimi
21) Khosrow Heydari
22) Darioush Shojaeian
23) Kamal Kamyabinia
24) Saeid Ezzatollahi
25) Mehdi Torabi
26) Morteza Tabrizi
27) Alireza Jahanbakhsh
28) Bakhtiar Rahmani
29) Soroush Rafiei
30) Ashkan Dejagah
31) Masoud Shojaei
32) Vahid Amiri
33) Ehsan Pahlavan
34) Rahim Zahivi
35) Mehdi Taromi
36) Sardar Azmoun
37) Karim Ansarifard
38) Reza Ghouchanejad

Four players from Persepolis, Alireza Beiranvand, Jalal Hosseini, Ramin Rezaeian, and Kamal Kamyabinia are included in a new-look 38-man party – captained by 29-year-old midfielder Ashkan Dejagah – for the preparatory tour of Armenia. This may go head-to-head with Branco’s decision to start Persepolis’s new round of exercises on Saturday and the boss of the reds is expected to postpone the new round of preparation.

Soroush Rafiei, the 26-year-old midfielder of Tractorsazi of Tabriz who had been banned from national team for using a fake military service card, has earned a call-up too. An inclusion that is more of a surprise and it may be a sign that the officials have compromised with the guilty ones or have decided to condone the wrong conducts of young players.

Afshin Peyrovani, Queiroz’s aid, has told the local media that after the friendly matches of the national team against Macedonia and Kyrgyzstan, the authorities decided to let the national players rest and that is the reason why the clubs are not allowed to use their national players.

Peyrovani also recounted that during the ten-day trip to Armenia, the national squad will be slated for two friendly matches.