8/10/2007 AFC, Agencies As a big leap forward for Iranian football, ‘Vision Iran’ program by the AFC will go ahead with provisional leagues on August 10 and 11. Top Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and Iranian officials including General Secretary Paul Mony Samuel and Vision Asia Acting Director Brendan Menton will attend the opening ceremony in
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8/8/2007 Afshin Afshar, lastkick.com Hey fans, As I was browsing the Big Soccer discussion board (See the logo on the bottom of the left column), I saw a link posted by Bob, one of the moderators. It was a column written by Leicester City manager Martin Allen on the club website called Gaffer Talks:
8/8/2007 MADRID (Reuters) – Barcelona’s Mexican youngster Giovani Dos Santos has said he still has much to learn despite grabbing headlines with his performances in the Primera Liga side’s preparations for the new season. The 18-year-old forward has top scored with three goals during their pre-season so far, two of them coming on the side’s
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8/4/2007 Ashin Afshar I am probably way behind the rest of you on this, but I just read that Manchester United offered a contract to the 9 year old Australian wunderkind. So I got curious, googled the kid’s name, and there he was. His name is Rhain Davis and if you click here you can
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8/4/2007 Kaveh Mahjoob, footballmedia.net On Friday, August 3rd, Afshin Ghotbi signed with Perspolis. This news was expected and in works for some time. Ghotbi’s negotiations with Perspolis has been discussed and speculated for many weeks and today it became official. Ghotbi’s signed a one year contract with Perspolis and is expected to travel to Iran
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8/2/2007 Kaveh Mahjoob, lastkick.com In the mid. and late 1970’s, Hassan Nazari was Iran’s right defensive back. Nazari began his playing days in his hometown club of Sepah of Abadaan. Nazari was the Capitan of Iran’s youth team and at the age of 19 was invited to the national team. He made his mark in
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August 1, 2007 BERLIN (AFP) – Italian striker Luca Toni says he’s enjoying life at Bayern Munich, especially the tradition of allowing fans in to watch the team training. He said: “The main difference between Germany and Italy is that the training sessions are up to now open to the public. I find that very
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Wednesday August 1, 2007 Justin McCurry, Guardian Unlimited Asashoryu, the enfant terrible of sumo wrestling, has been banned from taking part in the next two tournaments after he was filmed playing football in his native Mongolia while supposedly recovering from injuries. In an unprecedented show of anger towards a reigning grand champion, the Japanese Sumo
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