On the eve of the farewell ceremony of Iran’s Asian Games teams , Zlatko Kranjcar, spoke about the team preparations and recent developments.
The Asian Games ceremony was held on Tuesday at the Olympic Hotel in Tehran. Kranjcar remarked that holding such a ceremony is good for all the disciplines. These rituals are motivating.
“Using the youth and the motive that is there, we can do our best to be successful,” he said. “Of course, we want to make these great game experiences because our primary goal is the Tokyo Olympic Games.
The head coach of the football team said: “The situation is very good. We chose 20 players to make sure these high-spirited players go to China, and we’ll go to Indonesia after a match against China to prepare for the tournament.
“All the league clubs cooperated with us, except for Nasiji who refused to release their player,” he said, noting that some teams did not give their players a chance. The resolution that the Board of Governors welcomed was welcomed by all the clubs and caused us no problems.
In the answer to the question from the reporter on the absence of Reza Shakari and Omid Noroufokan in the Omid list, Krancjar said that the lack of two quality players will certainly be a loss to the team, but the players we have chosen have a very high quality and I hope we will be able to compete with the players who have high motivation We shall achieve good results.”
“We had two very good preparations matches against the Iraqi team, which included some senior players,” he told AFP. We played very well in the second game and we are now ready to play Asian games.
The Croat coach, Zlatco Kranjcar has earlier named 20 players who will be representing Iran in the Asian Games 2018 in Jakarta starting this August. Iran Olympics Football team is actually a mix but mostly consists of U19 players. The regulation restricts the age of players to be under 23 with 2 senior players can be included.
Iran Asian Games Squad
- Ahmad Reza Ahmadvand
- Alireza Orta
- Amir ROUSTAEI
- Aref AGHASI
- Mehdi Amini
- Mehdi GHAYEDI
- Mehdi Rahimi
- Mohamad AGHAJANPOUR
- Mohammad Amin Asadi
- Mohammad Khodabandeh
- Mohammad Mehdi MEHDIKHANI
- Mohammad Moslempour
- Mohammad Reza Azadi
- Mohammad SOLTANIMEHR
- Reza Jabireh
- Seyyed Abolfazl RAZZAGHPOUR
- Shahab ADELI
- Shahin Abbasian
- Sina Zamehran
- YOUNES DELFI