If you could bring back 2 players from the past to WC18

[RaginG Inferno]

I don't know why everyone says Karimi.
I can only think of one game where he solved a problem for us. Yes, he was a great fantasy player, but rarely did he deliver.
I said Abedzadeh and Nader Mohammadkhani, but I would like to revise. I'd include Azizi and Abdezadeh. Azizi in terms of talent and intelligence did things none of our players today can do.
A shame he had a bad attitude.

Watch Karimi at Bayern before his knee injury. His passing and dribbling completely muddled opposition defences.

[nisfejahan]

Watch Karimi at Bayern before his knee injury. His passing and dribbling completely muddled opposition defences.

I agree that Karimi was great at Bayern. I actually think he learned how to play proper football at Bayern. Before that, his highlight films could be titled "The greatest passes never made".

Having said that I would bring back Karimi of Bayern with the Rocket (Kia). Karimi because TM is sorely missing a play-maker, and Kia, well because he was Kia.

[sedee91]

Ali Daei & Karim Bagheri

[BacheLot]

One of most underrated traits of AK8 was his defensive positioning intelligence & insane tackling prowess...! Especially considering his undisputed world-class offensive qualities...!
The toughest thing with him was to figure out a way to actually motivate him to give his all on the pitch. ..!

I'd have a peak form AK8 as an easy choice, next to him either mahdavikia or bagheri or Parvin.

[KC McElroy]

You should go for positions that we currently are a bit shaky in. A keeper and playmaker are what we should improve upon. The obvious candidates are Abedzadeh and the late Ghayeghran.

[ShiroKhorshid]

1. The summer of 2004 Karimi😜
2. The 2002 - 2004 Mahdavikia

[Payam_Ali]

Mahdavikia, Zarincheh

[BusiG]

no doubt Mehdi and Karimi.....make it three and no doubt Daei is in as well!

[Butaloh]

Abedzadeh and Nekounam in their primes. And I'm basing this mainly on our biggest areas of need right now.

For a bonus edition let me pick a third player and I'd take Ali Karimi from 2004-2006 pre-injury.
And the line up would be something like:

-------------Abedzadeh-------------
Rezaian---PAG---Hosseini---Milad
----------Neko--------Ezzi-----------
Jbakhsh------Karimi---------Torabi
---------------Azmoun---------------

Give them the full year from now to WC2018 to settle into CQ's system... Good lord what a team we would have. We could go deep into the tournament with a little luck.

[Karimi 8]

Nekounam and Ali Karimi

[Siavash]

Daei, Neko

[CAGE]

Anyone of you who hasn't mentioned Karimi is a retard. The man is without a doubt the most individually skilled player Iran has ever seen or probably ever will see.

[persianballer]

Azizi and Kia

Karimi was great to watch but he was nowhere near az effective as Kia

[Iran_19]

I don't know why everyone says Karimi.
I can only think of one game where he solved a problem for us. Yes, he was a great fantasy player, but rarely did he deliver.
I said Abedzadeh and Nader Mohammadkhani, but I would like to revise. I'd include Azizi and Abdezadeh. Azizi in terms of talent and intelligence did things none of our players today can do.
A shame he had a bad attitude.

This team missing a fantasy player and if i want pick one it will be Ali Karimi, defensive midfielders you can pick tons but fantasy players doesn't grow on trees. Also is a bit unfair to say he only had one good game, he was the key to our 2006 qualifications with Kia and Hashemian. He assisted majority of our goals.
Again i criticized him a lot and i strongly believe he could have become a world star if he had the dedication and desire of like Daei and Hashemian but he was such a pure talent and we probably will never have one like him! Again i am talking about TALENT. We praised Daei many time saying he did well in Bayern(mainly as sub), but man this guy started 70% of Bayern matches in the first season with probably strongest midfielder in the world in that time(Ballack, Demichelis, Mehmet Scholl, Ze Roberto, Deisler, Salihamidzic, Schweinsteiger, Hargreaves, Jeremies).

[NFL]

No way Karimi or Azizi would fit into Carlo's game plan. no way , no how. too soft of players they both were. if you don't pressure the ball, you don't get to play much for carlos.

of the past generations (but not too far back), I think Hashemian fits Carlo's game strategy perfectly. Him and Kia as right wing or even RB.