28 invited for Team Melli’s Austrian training camp

Persianfootball.com – TEHRAN, 28 players were named to participate in the Iranian national team’s upcoming training camp in Austria from May 12 to 31.

Besides the already earlier eliminated Sepahan trio Omid Ebrahimi, Shoja Khalilzadeh and Yaghoub Karimi and the injured Mohsen Mosalman, four players were omitted from the squad.

The dropped players are Persepolis starlet Payam Sadeghian, Foolad Khuzestan left-back Mehrdad Jamaati, young Tractor Sazi goalkeeper Hamed Lak and veteran striker Reza Norouzi of Naft Tehran.

While ten legionnaires from Europe, MLS and the Persian Gulf, including youngsters Sardar Azmoun and Alireza Jahanbakhsh, were added, no new domestic players were invited, which means veteran star playmaker Ali Karimi will almost certainly not be considered for World Cup anymore.

Iran have to name a preliminary 30-man squad to FIFA until May 13 and then announce the final 23-man World Cup roster until June 2.

Below comes the full list of invited players.

Goalkeepers:
Daniel Davari – Eintracht Braunschweig, GER
Alireza Haghighi – Sporting Covilha, POR
Rahman Ahmadi – Sepahan Esfahan
Sousha Makani – Foolad Khuzestan

Defenders:
Khosro Heydari – Esteghlal Tehran
Hossein Mahini – Persepolis Tehran
Steven Beitashour – Vancouver Whitecaps, CAN
Pejman Montazeri – Umm Salal, QAT
Jalal Hosseini – Persepolis Tehran
Amir-Hossein Sadeghi – Esteghlal Tehran
Mohammad-Reza Khanzadeh – Zob Ahan Esfahan
Ahmad Alenemeh – Naft Tehran
Hashem Beikzadeh – Esteghlal Tehran
Ehsan Hajsafi – Sepahan Esfahan
Mehrdad Pouladi – Persepolis Tehran

Midfielders:
Javad Nekounam – Kuwait SC, KUW
Andranik Teymourian – Esteghlal Tehran
Reza Haghighi – Persepolis Tehran
Ghasem Hadadifar – Zob Ahan Esfahan
Bakhtiar Rahmani – Foolad Khuzestan

Strikers:
Ashkan Dejagah – Fulham FC, ENG
Masoud Shojaei – UD Las Palmas, ESP
Alireza Jahanbakhsh – NEC Nijmegen, NED
Mohammad-Reza Khalatbari – Persepolis Tehran
Mehdi Sharifi – Sepahan Esfahan
Reza Ghoochannejhad – Charlton Atheltic, ENG
Karim Ansarifard – Tractor Sazi Tabriz
Sardar Azmoun – Rubin Kazan, RUS