Iran Announced His Squad for FIFA World Cup 2022

Iran Announced His Squad for FIFA World Cup 2022

 Iran’s head coach  Carlos Queiroz has selected acquainted faces for the country’s World Cup 2022 squad.

The Portuguese coach finalised the Team Melli list overdue on Sunday, which includes skilled and experienced players like goalkeeper Alireza Beyranvand and defender Shojae Khalilzadeh.

Mehdi Taremi, who has continued  to shine  throughout European tournaments together along with his club, Porto, unsurprisingly secured a niche subsequent to different legionnaire forwards Sardar Azmoun – who recovered from an damage in time – and Alireza Jahanbakhsh.

The average age of squad  is sort of 29, in comparison with 27 and 3 months for the 2018 event in Russia, because the team goals to develop from the group stage  for the first  time in its World Cup history.

Veteran defensive midfielder Omid Ebrahimi is possibly the most important absentee. He turned into dominated out remaining week because of an damage.

Team Melli is a part of the simplest group  withinside the World Cup in which all groups are withinside the top 20 in international rankings.

Iran, Asia’s highest-rating globally at 20, will face England on November 21, accompanied through Wales on November 25 and the USA on November 29.

Iran will play Tunisia in Doha in its very last warm-up in shape earlier than taking over England, Wales and the USA in Group B.

Goalkeepers:

Alireza Beyranvand (Persepolis)
Amir Abedzadeh (Ponferradina)
Payam Niazmand (Sepahan)
Hossein Hosseini (Esteghlal)

Defenders:

Majid Hosseini (Kayserispor)
Mohammad Hossein Kanaanizadegan (Al-Ahli)
Shojae Khalilzadeh (Al-Ahli)
Morteza Pouraliganji (Persepolis)
Sadegh Moharrami (Dinamo Zagreb)
Ramin Rezaeian (Sepahan)
Milad Mohammadi (AEK Athens)
Abolfazl Jalali (Esteghlal)

Midfielders:

Saeid Ezatollahi (Vejle Boldklub)
Ehsan Hajsafi (AEK Athens)
Rouzbeh Cheshmi (Esteghlal)
Ahmad Nourollahi (Shabab Al-Ahli)
Ali Karimi (Kayserispor)
Saman Ghoddos (Brentford)
Vahid Amiri (Persepolis)

Forwards:

Alireza Jahanbakhsh (Feyenoord)
Ali Gholizadeh (Sporting Charleroi)
Mehdi Taremi (FC Porto)
Mehdi Torabi (Persepolis)
Karim Ansarifard (Omonia Nicosia)
Sardar Azmoun (Bayer Leverkusen)