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Abbasi was born in Tabriz in 1940. He became the champion of Iran and Asia in the 1960s and coached different boxing teams in East Azarbaijan province and Tabriz.He received bronze medal in 1966 Asian games in Bangkok, Thailand and clinched a gold medal in the 1967 Asian Boxing Championship …

According to Member Association Ranking which was released on Friday, South Korea obtaining 96.294 points ranked first.Saudi Arabia getting 92.938 points ranked 2nd while the United Arab Emirates receiving 91.533 points stood in the third position.Japan, Qatar, China, Australia, Uzbekistan and Kuwait ranked 5 to 10, respectively.9376**1771 www.irna.ir

At least one of the three remaining seats will be filled by a woman.The eight nominees will compete at the AFC Extraordinary Congress on September 27 in Goa, India.The nominated candidates are:1. Zhang Jian (China PR)2. Ali Kafashian Naeni (Islamic Republic of Iran)3. Mong Gyu Chung (Korea Republic)4. Saoud A.Aziz …

Under the terms of the agreement, the two clubs will cooperate on youth teams or academies for discovering and training young talented football players.Bahram Afsharzadeh, the caretaker of Esteqlal club, Shahrokh Sabokdast, a member of the board of directors of the club and Abbas Kordnouri, the head of Esteqlal Academy, …

Freestyle wrestling is to be held on June 11-12 in Los Angeles, California.Iran is in the same group with Azerbaijan, the US and India in the second round of the games while Russia, Georgia, Turkey and Mongolia are in the first group.Iranian athletes have so far won the competitions five …

The Iranian football club, sacked Majid Jalali on Tuesday following the poor results in Iranian Professional League. Saeid Rajabi has already worked as Saipa assistant coach. He also coached Iran U-17 football team from 2012 to 2013. Rajabi became the top scorer of 1992 FIFA Futsal World Championship, where Iran …

In the May edition released in Zurich on Thursday, Iran still remains Asia’s highest ranked team and 42nd in the world. With no A-international matches played in April, the May edition of the FIFA World Ranking provided a brief moment of security for teams eager to hold onto their top …

The Iranian football team lost to Al Ittihad 2-0 in Group A of the AFC Champions League on Wednesday. “We had a good performance but we made some mistakes which cost us the result and we were affected by the absence of some key players,” said Zaghinejad. “We were hoping …

Ehsan Pahlavan opened the scoring for Zobahan in the 30th minute and Masoud Hassanzadeh made it 2-0 from the penalty spot in the 40th minute. Al Nassr goalkeeper Hussain Shaian was sent off just ahead of the hour mark. Hashem Beikzadeh added a third for Zobahan three minutes from time. …

The Iranian football team beat Al Nassr 3-0 in the competition’s Group B. The win sets up a Round of 16 meeting for Zobahan with inaugural ACL champion Al Ain of the United Arab Emirates, with the Emiratis due to host the first leg on May 17 and the return …