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Iran bans 4 ballers ... Ayatollahs yuh days numbered
« on: June 23, 2009, 10:33:19 PM »

Ali Karimi during Iran's World Cup qualifying match in South Korea.

Their gesture attracted worldwide comment and drew the attention of football fans to Iran's political turmoil. Now the country's authorities have taken revenge by imposing life bans on players who sported green wristbands in a recent World Cup match in protest against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election.

According to the pro-government newspaper Iran, four players – Ali Karimi, 31, Mehdi Mahdavikia, 32, Hosein Ka'abi, 24 and Vahid Hashemian, 32 – have been "retired" from the sport after their gesture in last Wednesday's match against South Korea in Seoul.

They were among six players who took to the field wearing wristbands in the colour of the defeated opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, which has been adopted by demonstrators who believe the 12 June election was stolen.

Most of the players obeyed instructions to remove the armwear at half-time, but Mahdavikia wore his green captain's armband for the entire match. The four are also said to have been banned from giving media interviews.

The fate of the other two players who wore the wristbands is unknown. None of the team members were given back their passports upon returning to Tehran after the match, which ended in a 1-1 draw – a result that ended Iran's hopes of qualifying for next year's tournament.

Karimi is one of Iranian football's best-known stars, having played for the German club Bayern Munich. Ka'abi played for Leicester City for several months during the 2007/8 season. Hashemian and Mahdavikia play for the German teams Bochum and Eintracht Frankfurt.

The gesture acutely embarrassed Iranian officials. The team's chief administrative officer, Mansour Pourhiedari, initially claimed the wristbands had been intended as a religious tribute to a revered Shia figure in the hope that it would deliver a victory on the pitch.

Iran's hardline media have since linked the protest to the arrest on Saturday of Mohsen Safayi Farahani, who headed the country's football governing body under the former reformist president, Mohammad Khatami. He is one of several dozen opposition politicians, intellectuals and journalists to have been detained.

Hezbollah, a pro-Ahmadinejad website, accused Farahani, a member of the pro-reform Islamic participation front, of bribing the players to wear the symbols. Farahani was one of several prominent figures accused by Ahmadinejad of corruption during the recent election campaign.

Ahmadinejad, a known football fan, has taken a close interest in the sport's affairs. In 2006 Iran was banned from international competition by the world governing body Fifa after claims of improper interference by his government. The ban was later lifted.

This year the national team coach Ali Daei was sacked, reportedly on Ahmadinejad's orders, after a 2-1 home defeat by Saudi Arabia.

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Re: Iran bans 4 ballers ... Ayatollahs yuh days numbered
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2009, 10:37:44 PM »
Heard dat 2nite dey not easy.
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Re: Iran bans 4 ballers ... Ayatollahs yuh days numbered
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2009, 11:04:24 PM »
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Re: Iran bans 4 ballers ... Ayatollahs yuh days numbered
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2009, 11:38:10 PM »
life ban from iranian football is de least ah dem men worries right now.
         

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Re: Iran bans 4 ballers ... Ayatollahs yuh days numbered
« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2009, 03:35:47 AM »
And the Iranian Football Federation is risking a ban from FIFA for their government interfering with their national team.
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Re: Iran bans 4 ballers ... Ayatollahs yuh days numbered
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2009, 05:50:42 AM »
life ban from iranian football is de least ah dem men worries right now.

Yuh damn right.!!
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Re: Iran bans 4 ballers ... Ayatollahs yuh days numbered
« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2009, 08:57:41 AM »
This year the national team coach Ali Daei was sacked, reportedly on Ahmadinejad's orders, after a 2-1 home defeat by Saudi Arabia.

hmm, ah wonder what would happen if we used to move dread like that whenever we lose a game we shouldn't.
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Re: Iran bans 4 ballers ... Ayatollahs yuh days numbered
« Reply #7 on: June 24, 2009, 11:15:43 AM »
This year the national team coach Ali Daei was sacked, reportedly on Ahmadinejad's orders, after a 2-1 home defeat by Saudi Arabia.

hmm, ah wonder what would happen if we used to move dread like that whenever we lose a game we shouldn't.

Hmmm.........

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Re: Iran bans 4 ballers ... Ayatollahs yuh days numbered
« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2009, 11:56:04 AM »
I wonder if all that woulda happen if they had qualify for the World Cup !?!

I feel them men will turn up dead now, but we wouldn't know until Iran next football game.
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Re: Iran bans 4 ballers ... Ayatollahs yuh days numbered
« Reply #9 on: June 24, 2009, 12:24:45 PM »
These men should have their pic placed next to the word courageous in the dictionary....
"...If yuh clothes tear up
Or yuh shoes burst off,
You could still jump up when music play.
Old lady, young baby, everybody could dingolay...
Dingolay, ay, ay, ay ay,
Dingolay ay, ay, ay..."

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Re: Iran bans 4 ballers ... Ayatollahs yuh days numbered
« Reply #10 on: June 24, 2009, 01:04:38 PM »
These men should have their pic placed next to the word courageous in the dictionary....

Or Stoopid.....
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Re: Iran bans 4 ballers ... Ayatollahs yuh days numbered
« Reply #11 on: June 24, 2009, 01:33:29 PM »
These men should have their pic placed next to the word courageous in the dictionary....

Or Stoopid.....

I guess people like Nelson Mandela stupid too.

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Re: Iran bans 4 ballers ... Ayatollahs yuh days numbered
« Reply #12 on: June 24, 2009, 01:35:07 PM »
These men should have their pic placed next to the word courageous in the dictionary....

Or Stoopid.....

VB you beat mih to it........
"...If yuh clothes tear up
Or yuh shoes burst off,
You could still jump up when music play.
Old lady, young baby, everybody could dingolay...
Dingolay, ay, ay, ay ay,
Dingolay ay, ay, ay..."

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Re: Iran bans 4 ballers ... Ayatollahs yuh days numbered
« Reply #13 on: June 24, 2009, 03:30:00 PM »
These men should have their pic placed next to the word courageous in the dictionary....

Or Stoopid.....
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Re: Iran bans 4 ballers ... Ayatollahs yuh days numbered
« Reply #14 on: June 25, 2009, 07:08:38 AM »
allya ent realise that Jackula has been GNIKCUF (Blacklisting/Banning) our footballers, for less than that, for MANY MANY years.
wait till ah footballer make de mistake to critisise our PM
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Re: Iran bans 4 ballers ... Ayatollahs yuh days numbered
« Reply #15 on: June 25, 2009, 02:01:37 PM »
These men should have their pic placed next to the word courageous in the dictionary....

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Re: Iran bans 4 ballers ... Ayatollahs yuh days numbered
« Reply #16 on: June 25, 2009, 02:02:13 PM »
These men should have their pic placed next to the word courageous in the dictionary....

Or Stoopid.....

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Re: Iran bans 4 ballers ... Ayatollahs yuh days numbered
« Reply #17 on: June 26, 2009, 03:24:37 PM »
check the commets at the bottom of the link to the original article

http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news;_ylt=AqxTnhOf2y_QG9Yp2vtx7rImw7YF?slug=ap-fifa-iran&prov=ap&type=lgns

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Iran tells FIFA: no national team players punished
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GENEVA (AP)—The Iranian soccer federation has denied reports that national team players were punished for wearing green wristbands in solidarity with the political opposition during a World Cup qualifier last week.

Soccer’s world governing body said Friday it received a letter from the Iranian federation “which stated that no disciplinary action has been imposed on any players of the Iran national team by any authority.”

FIFA had written to Iran on Wednesday asking for clarification on media reports that several players were permanently banned for showing support for defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.

Players wore the wristbands during Iran’s World Cup qualifier June 17 at South Korea.
throw parties, not grenades.

 

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