Top 5 sports you want Iran to be a superpower in

[PSGman#19]

Basketball

Soccer

Baseball

Tennis

Track and Field (Usain Boltzadeh)

Hossein Boltzadeh

[Leicester City]

Football
Tennis
Formula 1
Rugby
Handball

[Bessos]

I guess the correct word would be ''powerhouse'' and not ''superpower''. A superpower is like being the very best and having maybe 1 other team that can rival you. "Powerhouse" would be more fitting, it's like being in the top 8.

Iran is already a powerhouse in wrestling, weightlifting, volleyball, futsal, beach soccer, taekwondo, karate and some lesser known sports such as wushu and Kabadi.

The one sport we are possibly a superpower in is wrestling.

I don't see Iran becoming a superpower in any other sport, but I dream of seeing us as a powerhouse one day in the following sports:

Women's football
Women's volleyball
Men's ice hockey
Women's ice hockey
And of course our very own Team Melli.

[DR Strangemoosh]

The Good Sport

[Philosophy_King]

1.Wrestling (specially freestyle)
2. Football
3.Weight lifting
4. Chess
5. MMA

[Mr Pouya]

Formula 1, although there are a few up and coming mixed-raced Iranian drivers.

[Karimi_1]

1. Football
2. MMA
3. Tennis
4. Track and field
5. F1

[Rooyintan]

Iran should invest in sports that will give us more medals

1. Track and Field
2. Swimming
3. Judo
4. Gymnastics
5. Boxing

Outside of olympics, Tennis, Ice Hockey, Basketball, Volleyball, Rugby Union, Cricket, Handball, MMA and many others.

[Azeem98]

Are international ice hockey and basketball as big as NHL and NBA ? If you take out NBA and NHL then as a brand these sports are below than Cricket

[diz]

Manzour e Jenabeh Alee az in Football Mutball, hamoon Soccer eh?

This website is called PersianFOOTBALL.com after all =)

[Adesor Vafaseya]

This website is called PersianFOOTBALL.com after all =)

Thats because there two types of Footballs, American Football, and Persian Football. The rest is soccer, which sucks.

[Paradigm]

How do sports interact with Iranian university system? When I was enrolled at Shareef for a single term back in 1992, the entire curriculum was one year that consisted of physical fitness activities. I recall us having to do a certain number of push-ups and timed running to get a pass grade. In U.S. there are organized collegiate sports which feed into both Olympics and professional leagues later on.

[Nokhodi]

How do sports interact with Iranian university system? When I was enrolled at Shareef for a single term back in 1992, the entire curriculum was one year that consisted of physical fitness activities. I recall us having to do a certain number of push-ups and timed running to get a pass grade. In U.S. there are organized collegiate sports which feed into both Olympics and professional leagues later on.

There are some tournaments, but its nothing like US or even Canadian University sport.
Most kids in the elite universities in Iran aren't there for athletics so they don't exactly attract the sporting crowd (exceptions like Daei, Dadkan, Zolfagharnasab...).
In the US you have entire colleges which depend on things like college football and basketball which is very odd to me.

[dcpp]

Are international ice hockey and basketball as big as NHL and NBA ? If you take out NBA and NHL then as a brand these sports are below than Cricket

As much as I like cricket I have to disagree with you. Ice hockey is played in many European countries as well. Starting from Scandinavia to France, Germany, Austria, Italy and so on. And I'm not even counting ex-soviet countries. Ice hockey in Japan is progressing too.

About basketball, well just look at the nba. There are more and more foreign players from different countries. They're now coming from Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania, South America which wasn't the case 20-25 years ago. Before you'd have perhaps a few players from eastern European countries and that's it.

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[DRCha]

Soccer

Rally

MMA

Archery

Rodeo