Category: 8. Sports

TEHRAN – Zahra Namazi of Iran won a gold medal at the Lagos Para Table Tennis Open on Saturday. She defeated Nigeria’s Kafayat Olaitan 3-0 in the Women’s Class 7-8 final. Iranian male table tennis athlete Mohammaderfan Gholami had… Continue Reading

Team Melli will play North Korea on Thursday (November 14) in Laos in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifier. Iran will also travel to Bishkek to meet Kyrgyzstan on November 19. Iran and Uzbekistan sit top of Group A with 10 points. Kyrgyzstan is fifth… Continue Reading

TEHRAN – Amir Ghalenoei has invited 28 players to Iran national team for two matches against North Korea and Kyrgyzstan in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification. Team Melli are scheduled to play North Korea on Nov. 14 in Laos and will face… Continue Reading

Persepolis captain Vahid Amiri found the back of the net seven minutes into the second half in Sirjan’s Shahid Soleimani Sport Complex. Sepahan was held to a 1-1 draw against struggling Nassaji in Isfahan’s Fooladshahr Stadium. Mersad Seyfi… Continue Reading

TEHRAN, Nov. 09 (MNA) – Esteghlal football team edged past Mes 1-0 on Saturday in the 2024/25 Iran’s Persian Gulf Pro League (PGPL). Continue Reading

TEHRAN – Persepolis football team defeated Gol Gohar 1-0 in Sirjan in the 2024/25 Iran Persian Gulf Professional League (PGPL) on Saturday. Persepolis captain Vahid Amiri was on target in the 52nd minute. Sepahan were held to a 1-1 draw against… Continue Reading

Gholami lost to Nigerian athlete Tajudeen Agunbiade 3-2 in the Men’s Single Class 9 semifinals and finished in third place. The 6th Lagos Valuejet Para Table Tennis Open was held on Nov. 7-8 at the Molade Okoya-Thomas Hall of Teslim Balogun… Continue Reading

Bar is the second import player in the roster as the US player Dweight Buycks signed earlier. He played this summer at Bendigo Braves in Australian NBL One. In 19 games just recently he had 10.3ppg, 7.6rpg, 1.0apg and 1.2bpg. The last season he… Continue Reading

Team Melli, who have traveled to Najaf for their training camp, had defeated Iraq on Wednesday 24-23 in its first match. The Iran handball team is headed by Spanish coach Rafael Guijosa Castillo. Guijosa, 55, experiences his second stint in the… Continue Reading

In an all-Iranian battle, the pair of Abbas Pourasgari and Alireza Aghajani defeated another Iranian team, which included Bahman Salemi and Abolhasan Khakizadeh, with a score of 2-0 in the quarterfinals. Earlier in the tournament, the Iranian A… Continue Reading