TEHRAN – Persepolis football team defeated Foolad 3-1 Friday night in the Matchday 1 of Iran Professional League (IPL). Reza Asadi opened the scoring for the visiting team just after the hour mark. Substitute Hamed Pakdel made it 2-0 in the 72nd minute with a header assisted by Mehdi Torabi. Foolad halved the deficit in […]
TEHRAN – Esteghlal football club completed signing of French winger Arthur Yamga on Friday. The 25-year-old player has successfully passed his medical exam. Yamga has penned a two-year contract with the Iranian team but the contract details have not been revealed. He has joined Esteghlal from Danish Superliga club Vejle Boldklub. He is Esteghlal’s second […]
TEHRAN – Foolad Sirjan qualified for the 2021 Asian Men’s Club Volleyball Championship final match. The Iranian team overpowered Thailand’s Nakhon Ratchasima QminC 3-0 (25-19, 25-23, 25-22) on Thursday. Foolad will play Al Arabi of Qatar in the final match on Friday. Nakhon Ratchasima QminC and Kazakhstan’s Burevestnik Almaty ply in the bronze medal match. […]
TEHRAN – Iran’s National Paralympic Committee (NPC) will mark the 14th National Paralympic Day on Oct. 16. Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, the NPC will symbolically celebrate the Day in Tehran’s Olympic and Paralympic Academy. The main goals of the National Paralympic Committee are to introduce the Paralympic Movement to the Iranian society, contribute to […]
TEHRAN – Persepolis football team head coach Yahya Golmohammadi extended his contract with the team for two years. His current deal was set to expire at the end of the season but Persepolis extended it for two more years. Golmohammadi was appointed as Persepolis coach in January 2020 as Gabriel Calderon’s replacement and led the […]
TEHRAN – Iran’s Mohammadali Geraei won a bronze medal at the 2021 World Wrestling Championships on Friday. The Greco-Roman wrestler defeated Hungarian wrestler Tamás Lévai 9-0 in the 77kg bronze medal match. The 2021 World Wrestling Championships are being held from Oct. 2 to 10 in Oslo, Norway.
TEHRAN – Iran national football team head coach Dragan Skocic sets a new record of 10 consecutive wins in all competitions. Iran edged the UAE 1-0 in Group A of the 2022 World Cup qualification Round 3 Thursday night and Skocic overtook Mohammad Mayeli Kohan’s nine-match winning streak in the National Team. Skocic was appointed […]
TEHRAN – Iran football team defeated the UAE 1-0 in Group A of the 2022 World Cup qualification on Thursday. Mehdi Taremi scored the winning goal in the 71st minute in Dubai’s Al Wasl Stadium. With one minute remaining, Taremi was brought down by Emirati player and Australian referee Chris Beath showed the spot but […]
TEHRAN – Saipa will meet Thailand’s Supreme Chonburi in third-place match of the 2021 Asian Women’s Club Volleyball Championship on Thursday. Saipa failed to qualify for the final match after being defeated by Kazakhstan’s Altay 3-1 (25-20, 21-25, 25-15, 25-22) on Wednesday. The competition is being held in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, from October 1 to […]
TEHRAN – Mojtaba Goleij from Iran claimed a bronze medal in the 97kg weight class of the 2021 World Wrestling Championships. The freestyler defeated Mongolian Ölziisaikhany Batzul 10-0 in the bronze medal match. Russian wrestler Abdulrashid Sadulaev defeated Kyle Snyder from the U.S. 6-0 in the final match. The 2021 World Wrestling Championships are being […]
TEHRAN – Kamran Ghasempour won Iran’s third gold medal in the 2021 World Wrestling Championships. He defeated Russian wrestler Magomed Kurbanov 8-4 in the final bout of 92kg. Bronze medal went to Azerbaijan’s Osman Nurmagomedov and J’den Cox from the U.S. Iranian freestylers Hassan Yazdani and Amirhossin Zare had won two gold medals in the […]
TEHRAN – Amirhossein Zare claimed Iran’s second gold medal at the 2021 World Wrestling Championship underway in Oslo, Norway on Sunday. He defeated three-time world championship gold medalist Geno Petriashvili from Georgia 9-2 in the final match of the 125kg. Earlier in the day, Hassan Yazdani had defeated American wrestler David Taylor 6-2 in the […]
