Team Melli started its first training session in preparation for the double-header against Togo and Russia.
Queiroz invited 23 players including Mehdi Taremi who is under FIFA suspension for 4 months !!!
The first match will be in Azadi Stadium against the African team , Togo currently ranked 121 in the FIFA Ranking. The most famous player in the squad is the 31 years old Emmanuel Adebayor currently playing for Turkish first division side, İstanbul Başakşehir.
Togo has many foreign based players however they have been on a downhill for any years suffering lack of resources and internal problems within the team.
Team Melli will resume training tomorrow but in a closed session. Another of Queiroz eccentric moves in dealing with media and journalist who will be banned from watching the session.
The squad is as follows.
- Ahmad Abdollahzadeh
- Akbar Imani
- Ali Golizadeh
- Alireza Beyranvand
- Ashkan Dejagah
- Daniel Mahini
- Hamed Lak
- Hossein Mahini
- Kamal Kamibinya
- Mehdi Taremi
- Mehdi Torabi
- Mohammad Ansari
- Mohammad Hossein Kananizadegan
- Morteza Tabrizi
- Omid Ebrahimi
- Omid Noorafkan
- Roozbeh Cheshmi
- Saeed Aghaei
- Sasan Ansari
- Seyed Jalal Hosseini
- Vahid Amiri.
- Vahid Mohammadzadeh
- Vouria Ghafouri