2019 Iran National Team

[Kings]

Friendly Games

26/07 Iran 79 Slovak Republic 74
27/07 Iran 99 Denmark 94
28/07 Iran 74 Portugal 70
03/08 Iran 82 Jordan 70
04/08 Iran 91 Russia 84
08/08 Iran 69 Greece 82
10/08 Iran 90 Hungary 82
11/08 Iran 58 Greece 88
22/08 Iran 85 Nigeria 71
23/08 Iran 77 Montenegro 89
25/08 Iran 83 Poland 88

FIBA World Cup Qualifiers

21/02 Iran 89 Japan 97
24/02 Iran 85 Australia 74

FIBA World Cup

31/08 Iran 81 Puerto Rico 83
02/09 Iran 67 Tunisia 79
04/09 Iran 65 Spain 73
06/09 Iran 71 Angola 62
08/09 Iran 95 Philippines 75

[mohsena2631]

Preliminary list for the World Cup. invited to the camp by coach Shahintab

no sign of solving problems. still no Arsalan Kazemi ! no guarantee if Haddadi or Samad wants to play for the NT.

1. Rouzbeh Arghavan
2. Mohammad Jamshidi
3. Hamed Haddadi
4. Mohammad Hassanzadeh
5. Hamed Hosseinzadeh
6. Mike Rostampour
7. Navid Rezaeifar
8. Keivan Riaei
9. Arman Zangeneh
10. Amir Sedighi
11. Aron Geramipour
12. Behshad Arabzadeh
13. Sajjad Mashayekhi
14. Rasoul Mozaffari
15. Meisam Mirzaei
16. Navid Niktash
17. Samad Nikkhah Bahrami
18. Sina Vahedi
19. Behnam Yakhchali

[JAMSKIE]

Guys, is Hamed Hadadi already practicing with the Iran National team bound for the 2019 FIBA World Cup? How about Samad Bahrami?

[mohsena2631]

Guys, is Hamed Hadadi already practicing with the Iran National team bound for the 2019 FIBA World Cup? How about Samad Bahrami?

yeah all players in the list attended the camp and they are still training, including Geramipour who finally solved his paperwork issue of entering/exiting Iran. at least for now they decided to put their differences aside.

Iran will have 11 preparation games before the World Cup, 3 of them in China right before the World Cup against Nigeria, Montenegro and Poland. beside that they will play 8 games in Europe, it will be against Denmark, Slovakia, Jordan, Russia, Greece and Portugal (and I forgot the other 2 lol)

[reamily]

yeah all players in the list attended the camp and they are still training, including Geramipour who finally solved his paperwork issue of entering/exiting Iran. at least for now they decided to put their differences aside.

Iran will have 11 preparation games before the World Cup, 3 of them in China right before the World Cup against Nigeria, Montenegro and Poland. beside that they will play 8 games in Europe, it will be against Denmark, Slovakia, Jordan, Russia, Greece and Portugal (and I forgot the other 2 lol)

local or tagged as naturalized?

[mohsena2631]

local or tagged as naturalized?

don't know. but if I'm not wrong I remember I read somewhere that from Rostampour and Geramipour one of them has to play as naturalized player while the other one has no problem being "local". and again if I'm not wrong it was Rostampour who had to play as naturalized player, but I might be wrong. there is no official statement about that.

[JAMSKIE]

yeah all players in the list attended the camp and they are still training, including Geramipour who finally solved his paperwork issue of entering/exiting Iran. at least for now they decided to put their differences aside.

Iran will have 11 preparation games before the World Cup, 3 of them in China right before the World Cup against Nigeria, Montenegro and Poland. beside that they will play 8 games in Europe, it will be against Denmark, Slovakia, Jordan, Russia, Greece and Portugal (and I forgot the other 2 lol)

That's a very good preparation for the Iran National team. You will have enough preparation/tune-up games for the World Cup & the quality of the teams you are tuning-up with are good. This would be perhaps Samad Bahrami's last stint with the National team.

Thanks for the reply bro & good luck to Iran.

[mohsena2631]

12 players for the European trip, first in Portugal against host team, Slovakia and Denmark

I believe this will be the final 12 squad as well, of course injuries are always possible

PG: Sajjad Mashayekhi, Hamed Hosseinzadeh, Rasoul Mozaffari
SG: Behnam Yakhchali
SF: Mohammad Jamshidi, Samad Nikkhah-Bahrami
PF: Mike Rostampour, Mohammad Hassanzadeh, Arman Zangeneh
C: Hamed Haddadi, Aaron Geramipour, Meisam Mirzaei

[mohsena2631]

Iran won 5 out of 5 so far in preparation games in Europe. while beating teams like Slovakia, Denmark, Portugal and Jordan are nothing special but they beat Russia today which was an interesting result. Hamed Haddadi and Behnam Yakhchali played key role here. specially Yakhchali with a decisive 3 pointer in the last minute

here is the boxscore in Russian of course

https://russiabasket.ru/games/139037?api

of course this is just a preparation game and Russia will be much stronger than this in China but maybe Iran is not the weakest team of the World Cup after all LOL that was one of the rare occasions when Iran won a game by good offense and not good defense.

[soulis79]

I saw the game. Tight rotation, great spacing and Haddadi. By the way he looked fresh, happy and motivated. Yakhchali started at point. I really liked your team.

[mohsena2631]

I saw the game. Tight rotation, great spacing and Haddadi. By the way he looked fresh, happy and motivated. Yakhchali started at point. I really liked your team.

thanks for the input. yeah Haddadi played like his prime days. not just him, the whole team looked motivated. there is no pressure on the team this time. everybody thinks this team is crap. based on very poor performance during the qualifiers. and also because of the problems inside the team which it seems they decided to put aside for the World Cup.

I still prefer to have very low expectations Olympic qualification still looks almost impossible with China being in such an easy group.

[mohsena2631]

12 players for the European trip, first in Portugal against host team, Slovakia and Denmark

I believe this will be the final 12 squad as well, of course injuries are always possible

PG: Sajjad Mashayekhi, Hamed Hosseinzadeh, Rasoul Mozaffari
SG: Behnam Yakhchali
SF: Mohammad Jamshidi, Samad Nikkhah-Bahrami
PF: Mike Rostampour, Mohammad Hassanzadeh, Arman Zangeneh
C: Hamed Haddadi, Aaron Geramipour, Meisam Mirzaei

They announced the final squad. exactly the same 12 players.

[mohsena2631]

only few days left before the World Cup, Iran team is in China for few more games, today they beat Nigeria 85-71 in a behind closed door game.

and from tomorrow they will participate in PEAK tournament with Montenegro, Nigeria and Poland. the first game is Montenegro. and final / 3rd place game will be on Sunday.

[mohsena2631]

Montenegro 89 - 77 Iran
the last preparation game will be on Sunday. Poland or Nigeria.

[reamily]

Congrats mohsena and Iran for making it to the Olympics...