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Afshin Hajipour
Afshin Hajipour (17 December 1975) is a retired Iranian football midfielder In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in t ... who played for Foolad Ahwaz, Esteghlal Tehran and Sepahan Isfahan. References * 1975 births Iranian men's footballers Foolad F.C. players Esteghlal F.C. players Sepahan S.C. footballers Living people Men's association football midfielders Footballers from Khuzestan province Iran men's international footballers {{Iran-footy-midfielder-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lali, Iran
Lali () is a city in the Central District of Lali County, Khuzestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and district. Demographics Population At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 16,213 in 3,041 households. The following census in 2011 counted 17,745 people in 4,106 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 18,473 people in 4,823 households. Climate Typically of the Khuzestan Plain, Lali has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bernd Köppen (1951–2014), German pianist and composer * Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan * Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author ... ''BSh'') characterised by brutally hot, rainless summers and comfortable winters with usually cold nights and occasional periods of heavy rainfall. See also Notes References Cities in Khuzestan province Populat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the northeast, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, and the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. With a Ethnicities in Iran, multi-ethnic population of over 92 million in an area of , Iran ranks 17th globally in both List of countries and dependencies by area, geographic size and List of countries and dependencies by population, population. It is the List of Asian countries by area, sixth-largest country entirely in Asia and one of the world's List of mountains in Iran, most mountainous countries. Officially an Islamic republic, Iran is divided into Regions of Iran, five regions with Provinces of Iran, 31 provinces. Tehran is the nation's Capital city, capital, List of cities in Iran by province, largest city and financial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midfielder (association Football)
In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundaries, with mobility and passing ability, they are often referred to as deep-lying midfielders, play-makers, box-to-box midfielders, or holding midfielders. There are also attacking midfielders with limited defensive assignments. The size of midfield units on a team and their assigned roles depend on which formation is used; the unit of these players on the pitch is commonly referred to as the midfield. Its name derives from the fact that midfield units typically make up the in-between units to the defensive units and forward units of a formation. Managers frequently assign one or more midfielders to disrupt the opposing team's attacks, while others may be tasked with creating goals, or ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foolad F
Foolad Khuzestan Football Club (, ''Bāshgāh-e Futbāl-e Fulād-e Khuzestān'') is an Iranian professional football club based in Ahvaz, Khuzestan, that plays in Persian Gulf Pro League. The club was founded in 1971 and is owned by Foolad Khuzestan Company. The club has won Iran Pro League twice, including a championship in the lower division, Azadegan League. In the 2004–05 season, Foolad became the champion of the fourth newly founded Iran Pro League (IPL), gaining a total of 64 points over 30 league matches. After several seasons, Foolad lost many of its key players through transfers and internal problems and also displayed a poor performance in the 2006 AFC Champions League. The club was subsequently relegated to the Azadegan League, second highest division in Iran at the end of 2006–07. However, Foolad was able to return to the IPL starting from the next season, 2008–09 Iran Pro League. Foolad won its second championship in 2013–14 season. The club also won th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esteghlal F
Esteghlal or Esteqlal () is a Persian language, Persian word meaning ''independence''. It is used as a prefix by many Iranian association football clubs and Armenian football clubs. This includes: * Esteghlal F.C. – Iranian football club * Esteghlal Ahvaz F.C. – Iranian football club * Esteghlal Meli-Sanati Khuzestan F.C. – Iranian football club * Shahrdari Bandar Anzali F.C., Esteghlal Bandar Anzali F.C. – Iranian football club * Esteghlal Ardabil F.C. – Iranian football club * Esteghlal Bojnurd F.C. – Iranian football club * Esteghlal Buer Ahmad F.C. – Iranian football club * Esteghlal Dushanbe – Tajikistani football club * :ru:Истиклол (футбольный клуб, Ташкент), Esteghlal Tashkent — Uzbekistani football club * Esteghlal Kish F.C. – defunct Iranian football club * Esteghlal-Kotayk Abovian – Armenian football club * Esteghlal Rasht F.C. – defunct Iranian football club * Esteghlal Takestan F.C. – Iranian football club * Esteghlal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sepahan S
Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan Sport Club (, ''Bâšgâh-e Farhangi-Varzeši-ye Fulâd-e Mobârake-ye Sepâhân''), commonly known as Sepahan, is an Iranian sports club based in Isfahan. It is best known for their association football, football section that play in the Persian Gulf Pro League, the highest tier of Iranian football league system. In the 2002–03 Iran Pro League, 2002–03 season, Sepahan ended the total dominance of two Tehran-based clubs, Persepolis F.C., Persepolis and Esteghlal F.C., Esteghlal, to win the Pro League. They are also the first Iranian club to win three consecutive league titles, reach the AFC Champions League final in 2007 AFC Champions League, 2007 and qualify for the 2007 FIFA Club World Cup, becoming the first-ever Iranian representative to the tournament. To date, they have won five league titles and five Hazfi Cups, becoming one of the most successful football clubs in Iran. Club history Before the revolution In 1953, with the help of Iran natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iran National Football Team
The Iran national football team (), recognised as IR Iran by FIFA since 2018, represents Iran in men's international senior Association football, football and is governed by the Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI). At the continental level, Iran has won three AFC Asian Cup championships in 1968 AFC Asian Cup, 1968, 1972 AFC Asian Cup, 1972, and 1976 AFC Asian Cup, 1976. They have also won three Football at the Asian Games, Asian Games in Football at the 1974 Asian Games, 1974, Football at the 1990 Asian Games, 1990, and Football at the 1998 Asian Games, 1998. The nation's best performance at the world level was reaching the quarter-finals at the Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics, 1976 Summer Olympics. At the FIFA World Cup, Iran have qualified seven times (1978 FIFA World Cup, 1978, 1998 FIFA World Cup, 1998, 2006 FIFA World Cup, 2006, 2014 FIFA World Cup, 2014, 2018 FIFA World Cup, 2018, 2022 FIFA World Cup, 2022 and 2026 FIFA World Cup, 2026) but have never ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1975 Births
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up. * January 2 ** The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress. ** A bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways. * January 5 – Tasman Bridge disaster: The Tasman Bridge in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier , causing a partial collapse resulting in 12 deaths. * January 15 – Alvor Agreement: Portugal announces that it will grant independence to Angola on November 11. * January 20 ** In Hanoi, North Vietnam, the Politburo approves the final military offensive against South Vietnam. ** Work is abandoned on the 1974 Anglo-French Channel Tunnel scheme. * January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iranian Men's Footballers
Iranian () may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Iran ** Iranian diaspora, Iranians living outside Iran ** Iranian architecture, architecture of Iran and parts of the rest of West Asia ** Iranian cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Other uses * Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan-ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran * Iranian languages, a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages * Iranian.com, also known as ''The Iranian'' and ''The Iranian Times'' See also * Persian (other) * Iranians (other) * Languages of Iran * Ethnicities in Iran * Demographics of Iran * Indo-Iranian languages The Indo-Iranian languages (also known as Indo-Iranic languages or collectively the Aryan languages) constitute the largest branch of the Indo-European language family. They include over 300 languages, spoken by around 1.7 billion speakers ... * Irani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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