Soccer World Cup 2006 / Iran

This article covers the Iranian national soccer team at the 2006 soccer world championship in Germany .

qualification

Second round

country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
Iran	6th	5	0	1	22: 4	15th
Jordan	6th	4th	0	2	10: 6	12
Qatar	6th	3	0	3	16: 8	9
Laos	6th	0	0	6th	3:33	0

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February 18, 2004	Iran	3: 1	Qatar	Azadi Stadium , Tehran , Iran
	Nikbakht 7. Mahdavikia 44th Daei 62. ( pen )		Hamza 70. ( pen )

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March 31, 2004	Laos	0: 7	Iran	National Stadium, Vientiane , Laos
			Daei 9. 62. ( pen ) Enayati 32. 35. Namthavisay 54. ( ET ) Taghipour 68. 83.

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0June 9, 2004	Iran	0: 1	Jordan	Azadi Stadium , Tehran , Iran
			Al Shaboul 82.

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0September 8, 2004	Jordan	0: 2	Iran	Al Madina Al-Riyadhia Stadium, Amman , Jordan
			Nikbakht 79th Daei 91.

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October 13, 2004	Qatar	2: 3	Iran	Thani Bin Jassim Stadium, Doha , Qatar
	Mohammad 18. Golmohammadi 74th ( ET )		Hashemian 8. 90. Borhani 77.

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November 17, 2004	Iran	7-0	Laos	Bahrain National Stadium, Manama , Bahrain
	Daei 7. 19. 27. 58. Nekounam 63. 72. Borhani 68.

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Third round

country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
Japan	6th	5	0	1	9: 4	15th
Iran	6th	4th	1	1	7: 3	13
Bahrain	6th	1	1	4th	4: 7	04th
North Korea	6th	1	0	5	5:11	3

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0February 9, 2005	Bahrain	0-0	Iran	Bahrain National Stadium, Manama , Bahrain

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March 25, 2005	Iran	2: 1	Japan	Azadi Stadium , Tehran , Iran
	Hashemian 13. 75.		Fukunishi 66.

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March 30, 2005	North Korea	0: 2	Iran	Kim Il sung Stadium , Pyongyang , North Korea
			Mahdavikia 39. Nekounam 74.

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0June 3, 2005	Iran	1-0	North Korea	Azadi Stadium , Tehran , Iran
	Rezaei 45.

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0June 8, 2005	Iran	1-0	Bahrain	Azadi Stadium , Tehran , Iran
	Nosrati 48.

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August 17, 2005	Japan	2: 1	Iran	Nissan Stadium , Yokohama , Japan
	Kaji 28th Mirzapour 76th ( ET )		Daei 75. ( pen )

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The selection of Iran qualified for a football World Cup for the third time .

World Cup 2006

Quarter

The World Cup headquarters for the Iranian national soccer team was the Ringhotel Krone in Schnetzenhausen near Friedrichshafen . The team completed their training sessions in the VfB Friedrichshafen stadium .

Squad

Number / name		Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Sp.	goal	red	G / R	yellow
goalkeeper
1	Ebrahim Mirzapour	Foolad Ahvaz	09/16/1978	3	0	0	0	0
12	Hassan Roudbarian	Pas Tehran	07/06/1978	0	0	0	0	0
22nd	Vahid Talebloo	Esteghlal Tehran	05/26/1982	0	0	0	0	0
Defense
3	Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh	Saba Battery Tehran	09/11/1972	2	1	0	0	0
4th	Yahya Golmohammadi	Saba Battery Tehran	March 16, 1971	2	1	0	0	1
5	Rahman Rezaei	FC Messina	02/20/1975	3	0	0	0	0
13	Hossein Kaebi	Foolad Ahvaz	09/23/1985	3	0	0	0	1
19th	Amir Hossein Sadeqi	Esteghlal Tehran	09/06/1981	0	0	0	0	0
20th	Mohammad Nosrati	Pas Tehran	01/10/1982	3	0	0	0	0
midfield
2	Mehdi Mahdavikia	Hamburger SV	07/24/1977	3	0	0	0	0
6th	Javad Nekounam	Al-Sharjah	07.09.1980	2	0	0	0	2
7th	Ferydoon Zandi	1. FC Kaiserslautern	04/26/1979	2	0	0	0	1
8th	Ali Karimi	FC Bayern Munich	11/08/1978	2	0	0	0	0
14th	Anderanik Teymourian	Abu Muslim Mashhad	03/06/1983	3	0	0	0	1
18th	Moharram Navidkia	Sepahan Isfahan	11/01/1982	0	0	0	0	0
21st	Mehrzad Madanchi	Persepolis Tehran	01/10/1985	3	0	0	0	2
23	Masoud Shojaei	Saipa Tehran	06/09/1984	1	0	0	0	0
attack
9	Wahid Hashemian	Hannover 96	07/21/1976	3	0	0	0	0
10	Ali Daei (captain)	Saba Battery Tehran	03/21/1969	2	0	0	0	0
11	Rasoul Khatibi	Sepahan Isfahan	09/22/1978	2	0	0	0	0
15th	Arash Borhani	Pas Tehran	09/14/1983	2	0	0	0	0
16	Reza Enayati	Esteghlal Tehran	02/23/1976	0	0	0	0	0
17th	Javad Kazemian	Persepolis Tehran	04/23/1981	0	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Branko Ivanković		02/28/1954

Games

For details see Football World Cup 2006 / Group D

country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Pt.
Portugal	3	3	0	0	5: 1	9
Mexico	3	1	1	1	4: 3	4th
Angola	3	0	2	1	1: 2	2
Iran	3	0	1	2	2: 6	1

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 Mexico - Iran 3: 1 (1: 1) 

Date: Sunday, June 11, 2006, 6:00 p.m. (CEST)

Stadium: Frankenstadion Nuremberg

Spectators: 41,000 (sold out)

Referee: Roberto Rosetti

 Mexico :

Sánchez - Márquez , Osorio , Salcido - Méndez , Pardo , Pineda - Torrado (46th Pérez ), Bravo - Franco (46th Zinha ) - Borgetti (52nd Fonseca )

 Iran :

Mirzapour - Kaebi , Rezaei , Golmohammadi , Nosrati (81st Borhani ) - Nekounam , Teymourian - Mahdavikia , Karimi (63rd Madanchi ) - Daei - Haschemian

Gates:

• 1-0 Bravo (28th, right-footed shot, Franco )
• 1: 1 Golmohammadi (36th, right-footed shot)
• 2: 1 Bravo (76th, right-footed shot, Zinha )
• 3: 1 Zinha (79th, header, Méndez )

Man of the game: Omar Bravo

Match report

Particularities:

• Before the game, a demonstration against the politics of Iran took place in downtown Nuremberg with around 1,500 participants, including well-known politicians such as Bavaria's Interior Minister Günther Beckstein (CSU). Iranian Vice President Mohammad Aliabadi watched the game in the stadium.

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 Portugal - Iran 2: 0 (0: 0) 

Date: Saturday, June 17, 2006, 3:00 p.m. (CEST)

Stadium: FIFA World Cup Stadium Frankfurt

Spectators: 48,000 (sold out)

Referee: Éric Poulat

 Portugal :

Ricardo - Miguel , Meira , Carvalho , Nuno Valente - Costinha , Maniche (67th Petit ) - Figo (88th Simão ), Deco (80th Tiago ), Cristiano Ronaldo - Pauleta

 Iran :

Mirzapour - Kaebi , Rezaei , Golmohammadi (88th Bakhtiarizadeh ), Nosrati - Nekounam , Teymourian - Mahdavikia , Karimi (65th Zandi ), Madanchi (66th Khatibi ) - Hashemian

Gates:

• 1: 0 Deco (63rd, right-footed shot, Figo )
• 2-0 Cristiano Ronaldo (80th, penalty kick)

Man of the game: Deco

Match report

Specialty:

Before the game, a demonstration against the politics of Iran with around 500 participants took place on Frankfurt's Opernplatz .

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 Iran - Angola 1: 1 (0: 0) 

Date: Wednesday, June 21, 2006, 4:00 p.m. (CEST)

Stadium: Central Stadium Leipzig

Spectators: 38,000

Referee: Mark Shield

 Iran :

Mirzapour - Kaebi (67th Borhani ), Rezaei , Bakhtiarizadeh , Nosrati (13th Shojaei ) - Mahdavikia , Teymourian , Zandi , Madanchi - Daei - Haschemian (39th Khatibi )

 Angola :

João Ricardo - Loco , Jamba , Luís Delgado , Kali - Zé Kalanga , Figueiredo (73rd Rui Marques ), Miloy , Mendonça , Mateus (23rd Love ) - Akwá (51st Flávio )

Gates:

• 0: 1 Flávio (60th, header, Zé Kalanga )
• 1: 1 Bakhtiarizadeh (75th, header, Mahdavikia )

Man of the game: Zé Kalanga

Match report

Specialty:

After Yahya Golmohammadi, Iran's second central defender Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh scored Iran’s second and final goal of the finals.

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For Iran, the tournament was over after the preliminary round. Branko Ivanković announced his retirement after the last group game.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mexico - Iran ( English ) FIFA. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved on April 14, 2019.
2. ↑ Portugal - Iran ( English ) FIFA. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved on April 14, 2019.
3. ↑ Iran - Angola ( English ) FIFA. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved on April 14, 2019.