{"id":20309,"date":"2015-01-21T04:32:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T12:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=20309"},"modified":"2015-01-21T04:46:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T12:46:21","slug":"persian-gulf-pro-league-footballers-to-experience-asia-cup-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/01\/21\/persian-gulf-pro-league-footballers-to-experience-asia-cup-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Persian Gulf Pro League footballers to experience Asia Cup quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Persianfootball.com – SYDNEY, Since 2004 many footballers from Iran’s top flight competition experienced quarterfinals of the AFC Asian Cup playing for Iran and Iraq. This year there are a total of 14 IPL players from Iran and Uzbekistan with a chance of experiencing quarterfinals, as Uzbekistan face Korea Republic in Melbourne tommorrow and Iran take on Iraq the following day in Canberra.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clubs from 5 out of 7 most populated cities have representation apart from Karaj and Shiraz. Uzbekistan’s Bahodir Nasimov is the sole non-Iranian footballer. However there could have been two more non-Iranians, Iraqi Karar Jassim playing for Esteghlal Tehran was surprisingly not selected for Iraq national team, while his countryman Ala Abdul Zahra was released by Tractor Sazi Tabriz in December.<\/p>\n

Four years ago in Qatar, a total of 21 players in Iran and 3 in Iraq were selected from clubs in Iran Pro League.
\nThe three Iraqi were midfielders Hawar Mulla Mohammed (Esteghlal Tehran), Karrar Jassim (Tractor Sazi Tabriz) andstriker Emad Mohammed (Shahin Bushehr).<\/p>\n

2007 AFC Asian Cup Champions Iraq squad had 3 players from IPL in possession being goalkeeper Noor Sabri and defender Khaldoun Ibrahim (both from Mes Kerman), striker Luay Salah(Persepolis Tehran). Team Melli that year had only 11.<\/p>\n

2004 in China, Iraq had midfielder Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail (Esteghlal Ahvaz) and Iran had 20 from the country’s domestic league.<\/p>\n

Persian Gulf Pro League was founded in 2001 and to date footballers from 60 nationalities have played in the competition.<\/p>\n

List of players from Iran Pro League at the 2015 AFC Asian Cup:<\/p>\n

Esteghlal (TEHRAN) –<\/strong> Mohsen Forouzan (GK), Khosro Heydari (DF), Amir Hossein Sadeghi (DF), Omid Ebrahimi (MF)
\nFoolad (AHVAZ)<\/strong> – Soroush Rafiei (MF)
\nNaft (TEHRAN)<\/strong> – Alireza Beiranvand (GK), Morteza Pouraliganji (DF), Vahid Amiri (FW)
\nPadideh (MASHHAD)<\/strong> – Bahodir Nasimov (FW) “UZBEKISTAN”
\nPersepolis (TEHRAN)<\/strong> – Mohammad Reza Khanzadeh (DF)
\nRah Ahan (SHAHR-E REY)<\/strong> – Ramin Rezaeian (DF)
\nSepahan (ESFEHAN)<\/strong> – Ehsan Hajsafi (MF), Vouria Ghafouri (DF)
\nTractor Sazi (TABRIZ)<\/strong> – Andranik Teymourian (MF)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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