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    2022 AFC U-23 Asian Cup


    2022 AFC U-23 Asian Cup

    Uzbekistan
    June 2022

    Format 16 teams
    Eligibility : Players born on or after 1 January 1999


    AFCU-23 Asian Cup qualification 2022

    Format 16 teams from 11 groups ( Uzbeks + 11 tops of groups + 4 best runners ups)


    Qatar (Group A)

    Tajikistan (Group B)

    Bahrain (Group C)
    Kuwait (Group D)
    UAE (Group E)
    Jordan (Group F)
    Indonesia (Group G)
    Singapore (Group H)
    Chinese T (Group I)
    Mongolia (Group J)
    Japan (Group K)


    Games will start less than a month while officially contract of coach ( Kia) has not been finalized. There is no team yet.

    Group B

    Tajikistan ( H )
    Iran
    Lebanon
    Nepal


    #2
    list of U23 players for selection
    To help Kia

    08/05/1999 Aluminium CB Amirmohammad Hooshmand 22y 3m 21d
    13/09/2000 Esteghlal MF Amir Hossein Khodamoradi 20y 11m 16d
    26/03/1999 Baderan CB Iman Akbari 22y 5m 3d
    18/08/2002 Baderan CB Hossein Shaverdi 19y 0m 11d
    07/06/1999 Esteghlal CB Mohammad Javad Behafarin 22y 2m 22d
    29/01/2000 Gol Gohar CB Erfan Tomaj 21y 7m 0d
    03/03/1999 Havadar CB Arsalan Azadi 22y 5m 26d
    26/03/2001 Malavan CB Mohammadreza Moharami 20y 5m 3d
    02/05/1999 Mashinsazi CB Mehdi Rahimi 22y 3m 27d
    25/01/2000 Nassaji CB Amirhossein Esmaeilzadeh 21y 7m 4d
    12/05/2001 Peykan CB Saman Fallah 20y 3m 17d
    06/04/1999 Saipa CB Aref Hajeidi 22y 4m 23d
    08/08/1999 Saipa CB Omid Doreh 22y 0m 21d
    03/04/2000 Saipa CB Taha Shariati 21y 4m 26d
    13/03/2000 Sepahan CB Amirsaman Ranjbar 21y 5m 16d
    21/01/1999 Mes Raf CB Houman Rabizadeh 22y 7m 8d
    14/05/2000 Mes Raf CB Seyed Majid Nasiri 21y 3m 15d
    22/05/1999 Foulad DM Aref Gholampour 22y 3m 7d
    17/01/2000 Mes DM Errfan Rashidi 21y 7m 12d
    09/04/2000 Nassaji DM Ali Davaean 21y 4m 20d
    07/09/1999 Peykan DM mohammad khodabandelu 21y 11m 22d
    12/12/1999 Saipa DM Mahyar Jabari 21y 8m 17d
    09/01/2002 Shahin B DM Mohammadreza Shakibkho 19y 7m 20d
    04/02/1999 Zobahan DM Mohammad Soltanimehr 22y 6m 25d
    30/04/1999 Aluminium FW Erfan Afraz 22y 3m 30d
    16/03/1999 Fajr Sepasi FW Farzan Dana 22y 5m 13d
    10/10/2002 Far Sepasi FW Arya Barzegar 18y 10m 19d
    05/01/1999 Foulad FW Yousef Keyshams 22y 7m 24d
    30/04/1999 Gol Gohar FW Erfan Afraz 22y 3m 30d
    31/01/2000 Havadar FW Saeed Karimi 21y 6m 29d
    23/07/1999 Mashinsazi FW Aydin Ghahremani 22y 1m 6d
    19/03/1999 Nassaji FW Sajad Aghaei 22y 5m 10d
    03/12/2000 Esteghlal FW Mohammadreza Azadi 20y 8m 26d
    03/03/2002 Persepolis FW Alireza Khodaei 19y 5m 26d
    01/07/2002 Sanatnaft FW Ahmad Shariatzadeh 19y 1m 28d
    23/05/1999 Sepahan FW Alireza Sadeghi 22y 3m 6d
    23/03/1999 Sepahan FW Alireza Sadeghi 22y 5m 6d
    24/02/1999 Tractor FW Abolfazl Poursheikh 22y 6m 5d
    09/03/1999 Zobahan FW Abolfazl Akashe 22y 5m 20d
    29/06/2001 Zorya FW Allahyar Sayadmanesh 20y 2m 0d
    29/10/1999 Aluminium GK Erfan Esfandiari 21y 10m 0d
    06/02/2000 Esteghlal GK Alireza Ansari 21y 6m 23d
    13/02/2000 Foulad GK Ali Gholamzadeh 21y 6m 16d
    29/08/2001 Padedeh GK Mohammad javad Kia 20y 0m 0d
    24/02/2000 Persepolis GK Amirmohammad Yousefi 21y 6m 5d
    11/12/1999 Esteghlal Gk Alireza Rezaei 21y 8m 18d
    13/01/2000 Peykan GK Meraj Esmaeili 21y 7m 16d
    09/07/1999 Saipa GK Parsa Jafari 22y 1m 20d
    13/01/1999 Sepahan GK Alireza Keykhosravi 22y 7m 16d
    28/03/1999 Tractor GK reza Seif Ahmadi 22y 5m 1d
    08/03/1999 Aluminium LB Yazdan Yousefi 22y 5m 21d
    22/10/2001 Malavan LB Sobhan Pasandideh 19y 10m 7d
    29/06/2000 Mashinsazi LB Raouf Najari 21y 2m 0d
    25/08/1999 Mes LB Amir Taher 22y 0m 4d
    18/06/2000 Nassaji LB Mustafa Javadian 21y 2m 11d
    29/10/2001 Esteghlal LW Fardin Rabet 19y 10m 0d
    10/02/1999 Mes LW Sirous bolandnazar 22y 6m 19d
    20/08/2000 Padedeh LW Amirhossein Jafari 21y 0m 9d
    15/02/2000 Peykan LW Alireza Koushki 21y 6m 14d
    24/02/2002 Shahin B Lw Hossein Nokhodkar 19y 6m 5d
    27/02/2000 Tractor LW Mohammad Javad Ghaderi 21y 6m 2d
    17/05/2000 Tractor LW Alireza Fathi 21y 3m 12d
    30/10/2000 Esteghlal MF Amirhossein Hosseinzadeh 20y 9m 30d
    21/08/2002 Foulad MF Alireza Bavieh 19y 0m 8d
    21/03/2000 Perspolis MF Mohammad Sharifi 21y 5m 8d
    09/02/2001 Saipa MF Amirali Sadeghi 20y 6m 20d
    24/01/2000 Sanatnaft MF Mohammadreza Ghobbishavi 21y 7m 5d
    11/01/2001 Sanatnaft MF Mohammadhossein Zavari 20y 7m 18d
    27/02/2002 Sepahan MF Yasin Salmani 19y 6m 2d
    19/02/1999 Zobahan MF Danial Momeni 22y 6m 10d
    19/01/1999 Esteghlal RB Arash Dajliri 22y 7m 10d
    09/02/2001 Gol Gohar RB Saeed Ahani 20y 6m 20d
    03/01/2000 Sanatnaft RB Alireza Satavi 21y 7m 26d
    27/01/2000 Esteghlal RW Sobhan Khaghani 21y 7m 2d
    28/07/2000 Foulad RW Vahid Namdari 21y 1m 1d
    02/10/2000 HNK Gorica RW Younes Delfi 20y 10m 27d
    27/10/2001 Malavan RW Mehdi Hashemijejad 19y 10m 2d
    14/02/1999 Zobahan RW Reza Rahimi 22y 6m 15d
    16/02/2000 Zobahan RW Alireza Ghaderi 21y 6m 13d
    Last edited by St_Mark; 08-29-2021, 12:19 PM.

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      #3
      According to Majedi ( chairman of the IFF Youth Committee) Mehdi Mahdavi Kia would like to participate with the under-21 team for AFC U23 qualification games.



      *اینطور در رسانه ها گفته شد که مهدی مهدوی کیا مایل است با تیم زیر 21 سال در این بازی ها شرکت کند؟
      من هم می گویم با چنین تیمی به مسابقات برود بهتر است و نظر فدراسیون فوتبال هم خوشبختانه همین است. چرا که اگر ما با بازیکنان زیر 23 سال در این مسابقات شرکت کنیم و موفق به حضور در دور نهایی بازی ها با حضور 16 تیم شویم بعد از یک سال و نیم باید بچه ها را کنار بگذاریم و از دوباره برای المپیک یک تیم نو بسازیم. اما اگر تیمی که می تواند در مسابقات ورودی المپیک شرکت کند از همین الان شکل دهیم و با این تیم وارد بازی ها شویم بچه ها تجربه کسب خواهند کرد و حتی اگر موفق نشویم به دوره نهایی بازی های این دوره صعود کنیم بچه هایی که می توانند در مقدماتی المپیک باشند تجربه چند بازی بین المللی را پشت سر خواهند گذاشت.
      .
      .

      If true, this will not end well. Sending younger players for You19 and U23 games has been tried before in Iran and always had failed badly.

      Iran U23 football teams has failed for decades because of various bad policiy and practice of Iff incompetant officials and managers.
      Iranian youth teams has not advanced to even DF of AFC games for oast few years because this kind of thinking.

      IFF has yet to appoint a U19 coach after departure of Temp coacg Mahabadi last year. U23 has been without a coach and a team since disaster of Estili/Majidi over year and half ago when Iran failed to advanced from group stage even with Allahyar, Mohebi, Delfi, Ghaedi, Shekari, Aghasi, Gholami, Shojaei....

      Last day to submit to IFF list of 50 players is before Sep27
      but coach is not in Iran yet and has not watched any U23, U19 League games.

      It will not be easy task for Mahdavikia who has no experience as a head coach at this level. He failed bad as U17 coach helping Doostimehr few years ago.
      Good luch to U23 and Mahdavikia


      27.10.2021 AFC U23Q Iran U23 - Nepal U23
      29.10.2021 AFC U23Q Lebanon U23 - Iran U23
      31.10.2021 AFC U23Q Tajikistan U23 - Iran U23



      حتی اگر موفق نشویم !!

      “Anyone can have an off decade.”!!










      Last edited by St_Mark; 08-30-2021, 06:25 AM.

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        #4
        ^ In a sense the idea is sound that we use U21 players.
        Perhaps to bolster a few key positions, we can use 3-4 U23 players.
        But overwhelmingly the U21 squad should do the job.

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          #5
          The team will be weak in full back spots. Hardani, Jalali, Derakhshanmehr are all slightly too old.

          CB should be covered with Fallah and Houshmand. Both impressive in PGPL this year.

          GK is also solid, mohammad javad kia of padideh looks quite promising.

          Midfield again better than previous years I think, Khodabandelu at DM, Ghobeishavi is a regular in SNA too and captain from u17 WC so he has good experience, and ofc Yasin at #10 spot, or playing as another 8 with ghobeishavi. Soltanimehr also back fit again for zob ahan, he was very solid at u20 WC with Shekari some years ago.

          Wings and Forward Delfi,Allahyar are the obvious starters. LW could be a surprise. I think Shariatzadeh was one of the breakouts for SNA this year. He could play there, also nokhodkar who is very highly rated. Hosseinzadeh had great season for saipa and got move to SS to replace Ghayedi.

          Also I didnt see in St. Mark list Malavan CDM Boloukbashi who has strong physique and range of pass, think Zarre gave him good mins this year. He could also be a factor.

          ----------Javadkia----------

          ??---Fallah----Houshmand---??

          ---------Khodabandelu (boloukbashi)----
          Ghobeishavi (Soltanimehr)----------Y. Salmani

          Delfi(Nokhodkar)--------Allahyar------Hosseinzadeh (Shariatzadeh)

          Other bench options: Khaghani, Koushki, Barzegar

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            #6
            Originally posted by inarsenewetrust View Post
            The team will be weak in full back spots. Hardani, Jalali, Derakhshanmehr are all slightly too old.

            CB should be covered with Fallah and Houshmand. Both impressive in PGPL this year.

            GK is also solid, mohammad javad kia of padideh looks quite promising.



            ,,,,,

            Dear Which Jalali ?

            Jalali Abolfazl ( Saipa moving Esteghlal) Was not member of recent U17, U19, U23 . You are correct he is over 23.
            Ahmadreza Jalali ( Foulad) U17 WC and U19 ( C) is under 23 very good LB.
            If you recal During WC U17 he was the youngest of squad who play more minutes than any other players of squad.

            Unfortunately for him and other young Foulad players their coach Nekonam prefered older and experienced player type.




            Ahmad Reza Jalali - International Career Summary

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              #7
              Originally posted by inarsenewetrust View Post
              The team will be weak in full back spots.


              GK is also solid, mohammad javad kia of padideh looks quite promising.
              .
              Kia is good but i think Rezaei ( Peykan to Esteghlal) has much more playing minutes of PGL games and a good keeper too. Both were member of U19


              P.S


              Last two games for U19 vs Tajikistan ( We are going to play their U23 team at their home soon) each played one game.


              Game 2

              حميدرضا رضايى،
              ميلاد كر،مرتضى استكى، پيمان دادخواه، ياسين سلمانى، احمد جلالى،
              عليرضااسدآبادى، حسين نخودكار ، على سبحانى، على پوراسماعيل و عليرضا منظم

              Game 1

              محمدجواد كيا
              ، ميلاد كر، مرتضى استكى، عليرضا اسدآبادى، احمدرضا جلالى، ياسين سلمانى، عليرضا باويه ،حسين نخودكار، مهدى هاشمى، اميرعلى صادقى و على سبحانى


              Kia , Rezaei , Niknafs



              We did not have a good RB and Ahani was injured so Asadabadi a RW played RB and he was ok.
              Last edited by St_Mark; 08-30-2021, 02:22 PM.

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                #8
                Originally posted by St_Mark View Post
                Dear Which Jalali ?

                Jalali Abolfazl ( Saipa moving Esteghlal) Was not member of recent U17, U19, U23 . You are correct he is over 23.
                Ahmadreza Jalali ( Foulad) U17 WC and U19 ( C) is under 23 very good LB.
                If you recal During WC U17 he was the youngest of squad who play more minutes than any other players of squad.

                Unfortunately for him and other young Foulad players their coach Nekonam prefered older and experienced player type.




                Ahmad Reza Jalali - International Career Summary

                yes I was referring to abolfazl. I guess derakhshanmehr has been keeping jalali junior out of xi for foolad. Derakhshanmehr is one of the players from u20 I rated most highly and still do. His technical skills, speed, and offensive output are all very good for iranian standards. I think if he improves his positioning a bit on defensive end, gets a bit more consistent in his 1v1 defending he could do very solid in europe. Still very young himself at 23.

                But in that case LB should be ok. RB is still question mark for me. Also these age groups traditionally struggle with CB. its not enough to have two individually ok CBs (I think we even had aghasi,gholami before and that failed, both went on to become TM players), whoever plays there needs to develop a strong chemistry and partnership that with the CDM provides solid foundation for rest of team to play.

                Houshmand has good leadership qualities and seems like a very modern CB, good on the ball, very quick and athletic. Fallah is more aggressive ball winner from limited mins I saw, surprisingly good goal scoring threat. I hope Kia just settles on a back 4 and lets them build chemistry. The attacking mid/wing/fwd zones can be experimented and rotated more.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by inarsenewetrust View Post
                  yes I was referring to abolfazl. I guess derakhshanmehr has been keeping jalali junior out of xi for foolad. Derakhshanmehr is one of the players from u20 I rated most highly and still do. His technical skills, speed, and offensive output are all very good for iranian standards. I think if he improves his positioning a bit on defensive end, gets a bit more consistent in his 1v1 defending he could do very solid in europe. Still very young himself at 23.

                  But in that case LB should be ok. RB is still question mark for me. Also these age groups traditionally struggle with CB. its not enough to have two individually ok CBs (I think we even had aghasi,gholami before and that failed, both went on to become TM players), whoever plays there needs to develop a strong chemistry and partnership that with the CDM provides solid foundation for rest of team to play.

                  Houshmand has good leadership qualities and seems like a very modern CB, good on the ball, very quick and athletic. Fallah is more aggressive ball winner from limited mins I saw, surprisingly good goal scoring threat. I hope Kia just settles on a back 4 and lets them build chemistry. The attacking mid/wing/fwd zones can be experimented and rotated more.
                  As good as he is he is one of those unlucky players that will disappont the team, coach and fan not because he is a bad player or controversia; Indeed he is nice, sweet and very capable defender but unreliable for the team. for various reasons mostly physical or sometimes mental he will miss the game. There are not much demands for this type players.
                  He was fantastic during U16 ( 16 P) and not bad for 2-3games with U19.For U23 he had injuries but he recovered and played very well for Sepahan untill injury then moved to Foulad , He had few good games till injury ...
                  He is waiting to see if Foulad will extend contract with him . Best wish for him

                  You are correct for Nekonam he was 2nd LB before his last injury.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by inarsenewetrust View Post
                    yes I was referring to abolfazl. I guess derakhshanmehr has been keeping jalali junior out of xi for foolad. Derakhshanmehr is one of the players from u20 I rated most highly and still do. His technical skills, speed, and offensive output are all very good for iranian standards. I think if he improves his positioning a bit on defensive end, gets a bit more consistent in his 1v1 defending he could do very solid in europe. Still very young himself at 23.

                    But in that case LB should be ok. RB is still question mark for me. Also these age groups traditionally struggle with CB. its not enough to have two individually ok CBs (I think we even had aghasi,gholami before and that failed, both went on to become TM players), whoever plays there needs to develop a strong chemistry and partnership that with the CDM provides solid foundation for rest of team to play.

                    Houshmand has good leadership qualities and seems like a very modern CB, good on the ball, very quick and athletic. Fallah is more aggressive ball winner from limited mins I saw, surprisingly good goal scoring threat. I hope Kia just settles on a back 4 and lets them build chemistry. The attacking mid/wing/fwd zones can be experimented and rotated more.

                    Dear:

                    MahdaviKia has not arrived in Iran yet , It is not clear when his 4 german assistants will arive under this dire circumestances or if he will decide to have Iranian assistants,

                    He has to select players first and probably as before they have to provide him a list to pick.
                    Games start on Sepember 27 not much time to practice , build a team from scratch so more likely he will select more experience players even with little PGL playing time.
                    Once he manage to advance from Group B ( very likely except act of God) he will have time to build his team and do his own plan.

                    I will surprised if he does not pick Sharifi ( Perspolis) & Khaghani ( Esteghlal) because of experience.
                    Last edited by St_Mark; 08-30-2021, 02:53 PM.

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by inarsenewetrust View Post
                      . RB is still question mark for me..
                      RB is a nightmare for youth teams.

                      U19 RB was Ahani most experience player who has played in every teams Saipa, Peykan, Pars, Naft MS , not now Golgohar but missed most of critical games and was replaced by Asadabadi RW.

                      U23 Aghajanpour ( Golgahar ) i was RB but was injured and replaced by Arta ( CB player) and when he was injured he was replaced by Najarian RW who did well.

                      Lets wait and see what new coach decide.
                      Last edited by St_Mark; 08-30-2021, 03:09 PM.

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                        #12
                        Mahdavikia arrived in Tehran and met with IFF cheif . Officially he is the new coach of TM U23.

                        Mahdavi Kia would work as technical advisor to the Football Federation in matters.

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                          #13
                          Olympic team coordination meeting ‎


                          ‎Earlier today, the coordination meeting of our U23 was held. ‎



                          A Meeting was held in the presence of Azizi Khadem, president Majediand Mehdi Mahdavi Kia . The main focus of the meeting was to examine the platforms necessary to qualify for the Paris Olympics.‎


                          Games to star in 56 day

                          TodayTakikestan arrived in Bahrain

                          Tajikistan U23 vs Bahrain U23
                          in Bahrain

                          Tajikistan host of Group B is ready for Iran





                          Last edited by St_Mark; 09-01-2021, 08:36 AM.

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                            #14
                            My apology to you all

                            I made a big mistake on date of the games

                            I have been careless and reported wrong in various posts
                            I will try to correct them

                            My apology again

                            Games to star og Oct 27 not Sep 27

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                              #15
                              Good game to monitor for U23 coach Mahdavikia
                              TODAY THE YOUTH TEAM OF TAJIKISTAN (U-23) WILL HOLD A FRIENDLY MATCH WITH PEERS FROM BAHRAIN Friendly match September 3 (Friday) Beginning - at 21:15 hours Dushanbe Bahrain (U-23) - TAJIKISTAN (U-23) Manama, National Stadium



                              Last edited by St_Mark; 09-03-2021, 01:47 PM.

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