PLDC- Branko Ivankovich told reporters today that Rahman Rezaei will be absent from the friendly against Bosnia but the rest of the European based players have promised to be with us for that game.

Branko told reporters: "I have talked to the national team players that play abroad and Rezaei told me that he can not join us for the Bosnia game due to club obligations, and Karimi will probably not join us as well unless UAE league games get canceled for that week.

The rest of the players have promised to be with us against Bosnia."

Regarding Moharram Navidkia who has just recently recovered from an bad injury, Branko said: "The reason why I invited Navidkia for the Bosnia game besides my confidence in him, is that I want to see the level of his performance after his injury and whether he will play against Bahrain or not all depends on how well prepared and ready he is to play which we will find out in soon in the camp."