IG, Tehran
Iran’s Croatian coach Branko Ivankovic has named a pre-World Cup squad that is going to take part in the World Cup preparation camp in Switzerland.

Squad

Goalkeepers:
Ebrahim Mirzapour (Foulad Khuzestan)
Hossein Roudbarian (Pas Tehran)
Vahed Taleblou (Esteghlal Tehran)
Mehdi Vaezi (Peykan Tehran)

Defenders:
Yahya Golmohammadi (Saba Battery)
Rahman Rezaei (FC Messina, Italy)
Hadi Shakouri (Pas Tehran)
Hossein Kaabi (Foulad Khuzestan)
Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh (Saba Battery)
Mohammad Nosrati (Pas Tehran)
Amir Hossein Sadeghi (Esteghlal Tehran)
Sattar Zareh (Bargh Shiraz)

Midfielders:
Ali Karimi (FC Bayern Munich, Germany)
Mehdi Mahdavikia (Hamburger SV, Germany)
Fereydoon Zandi (FC Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Mehrzad Madanchi (Perspolis Tehran)
Andranik Teymourian (Abu Moslem)
Javad Nekounam (Pas Tehran)
Javad Kazemian (Perspolis Tehran)
Mehdi Rajabzadeh (Zob Ahan)
Meysam Mane’i (Pas Tehran)
Ali Reza Nikbakht-Vahedi (Esteghlal Tehran)
Mojtaba Jabbari (Esteghlal Tehran)
Masoud Shojaei (Saipa Karaj)
Moharram Navidkia (Sepahan)

Strikers:
Vahid Hashemian (Hannover 96, Germany)
Ali Daei (Saba Battery)
Reza Enayati (Esteghlal Tehran)
Arash Borhani (Pas Tehran)
Rasoul Khatibi (Sepahan)

Waiting List
Eman Mobali (Al Shabab, UAE)
Hossein Kazemi (Esteghlal Tehran)
Mehdi Amirabadi (Esteghlal Tehran)
Sayed Mohamad Alavi (Foulad Khuzestan)
Sayed Mehdi Rahmati (Esteghlal Tehran)