S. Korea to travel to Iran for football friendly in November

[Javeed]

SEOUL, July 30 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will travel to Iran for a football friendly in November, an official with the sport's national governing body said Wednesday.

"We will have a friendly match against Iran in Tehran on Nov. 18," an official with the Korea Football Association (KFA) said, confirming an earlier Iranian media report saying the two countries would meet in November.

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[Darloc]

How pathetic, they tried since September 2013 to get a rematch so they could get their revenge, they will even go through the trouble to fly all the way from the other side of the continent for a friendly match so they can ''get even''.

Pathetic.

[Kiarash]

How pathetic, they tried since September 2013 to get a rematch so they could get their revenge, they will even go through the trouble to fly all the way from the other side of the continent for a friendly match.

Pathetic.

Why? Be happy we at least play South Korea instead of the usual Palestine, Jordan, Madagascar etc.

Looking forward to this game.

[Darloc]

Why? Be happy we at least play South Korea instead of the usual Palestine, Jordan, Madagascar etc.

Looking forward to this game.

Mate, we wont get anything out of this friendly except for Koreans trying to hurt/injure our players. Korea is the new Saudi, they are our most serious rival currently.

[Kiarash]

Mate, we wont get anything out of this friendly except for Koreans trying to hurt/injure our players. Korea is the new Saudi, they are our most serious rival currently.

I know there was a lot of trash talk on both sides but our federations are still good friends it seems. Most Korean fans dislike Choi for what he did, so lets move on and hope for a clean game.

[shahabGAOL]

It is good we play against South Korea. I hope we can play against much bigger teams in Europe, now that we show the world that we can play football.
I was surprised why we always face the Arab-teams: Qatar, Bahrain, UAE (Asian Cup 2015) we will be top of the table of that group with 9 points and more than 10+ and 0 goals against.
I am very confident that we can do this, because we where the best Asian team at the World Cup 2014!

[sarbaz]

It will good for TM to play a friendly against Saudi Arabia to get ready for the rest of thier Marmoolak khor brothers
and to crush them 4-0
Saudi Arabia's football team is in its weakest period of the past 25 years

[Abtin]

Sv: S. Korea to travel to Iran for football friendly in November

[Nariman]

TM should wear a jersey with Choi's photo on it to thank him for helping us during the WCQ.

[EKBATAN]

although its better than al-soorakh teams....but its yet again another opponent we know very well and we dont gain anything from it really. UNLESS we use nothing but new players to test them. no sense in calling our first team for this.

[Ali.Karimi79]

S. Korea to travel to Iran for football friendly in November

although its better than al-soorakh teams....but its yet again another opponent we know very well and we dont gain anything from it really. UNLESS we use nothing but new players to test them. no sense in calling our first team for this.

I was about to agree when figured out: which first team?
We don't have any first team right now.
I'd love to see Jahanbakhsh starting with Azmoun and no shojaei for gods sake.

[soniq]

world cup is over, at this point playing south korea is awesome. We'll face them in the quarter finals again so good practice

[Damavand]

world cup is over, at this point playing south korea is awesome. We'll face them in the quarter finals again so good practice

Not this time, thank goodness. It will be Iraq or Jordan.

[K. Nader]

although its better than al-soorakh teams....but its yet again another opponent we know very well and we dont gain anything from it really. UNLESS we use nothing but new players to test them. no sense in calling our first team for this.

I don't see how we won't get anything from this friendly. South Korea is a very likely opponent in the elimination rounds of the Asian Cup and considering that they've knocked us out in 3 of the last 5 Asian Cups, they're an excellent team to play against. As far as Asian opposition is concerned, any opportunity to play against South Korea, Japan, or Australia should be accepted. The only time I was against such a friendly was immediately after the 2014 WCQ fiasco when South Korea wanted to play a friendly against us in Seoul.