A testemonial match between two generations of Team Melli was carried out on Saturday eveneing between the current team that qualified for the 2014 World Cup and the 1998 Team Melli that qualified to France Worlds Cup. The teams were called as 2014 and 1998.
Representing the 1998 team were:
NAKISA, Nima , .ZARRINCHEH, Javad (OSTADASADI, Ali Akbar), SHAHROUDI, Reza, MINAVAND, Mehrdad (DEENMOHAMMADI, Sirous) , SAADAVI, Naim, PEYROVANI, Afshin, ESTILI, Hamidreza, PASHAZADEH, Mehdi, LATIFI, Ali, EBRAHIMI, Omid, HATAMI, Farzad,
Coaches Bijan Zolfagharnasab and Faramarz Zelli.
The currrent Team Melli team was represented by:
AHMADI, Rahman (HAGHIGHI, Alireza) , HOSSEINI, Jalal , MONTAZERI, Pejman, HEYDARI, Khosrow (KHANZADEH, Mohammadreza) , MAHINI, Hossein, HADDADIFAR, Ghassim, HAJSAFY, Ehsan, JABBARI, Mojtaba , NEKOUNAM, Javad, KHALATBARY, MohamadReza, REZAEI, Gholamreza
Coaches: Omid Namazi and Alireza Mansourian.
Zarinchesh and Nekounam were the repected Captains of the two teams.
The match was played in one half only and ended 5-0 for the 2014 Team. In the one sided match , Jabbari, Rezaei , Nekounam, Mahini and Khanzadeh scored the goals.