The mega event of football FIFA World Cup 2018 is ready to kick off in Russia as the tournament is scheduled to be started from 14th June 2018 and continues till 15th July 2018. Iran has also qualified for the main rounds of this event and the counter side is make their final preparations before jumping into this football event.
Iran is among the few teams who succeed to qualify from Asia and its all due to superb performance of this team in qualifying rounds of FIFA World Cup. Iran no doubt holds very strong and competent playing squad and in recent few years this team has developed themselves as one of the most hardcore and tough football team.
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Iran Live Stream Official
Iran Live Stream FIFA World Cup 2018 will be available on different sports channels. As Fox TV and BeIN Sports will provide Iran vs Spain Live Streaming World Cup 2018. You can also catch Iran vs Portugal Live Stream on Sky Sports and SBS TV. The Iran vs Morocco Live Stream will be offered by CBS and ESPN for free for all the lovers of football.
Iran Kits and Jerseys FIFA World Cup 2018
Well Iran did not yet displayed their official kits and jerseys for FIFA World Cup 2018 but as per the news circulate the kits of Iran will be sponsored and manufactured by FIFA and the kits will be displayed publically in the upcoming days of this month.
Iran Qualification for FIFA World Cup 2018
The Asian football teams are qualified for the FIFA World Cup through Asian Cup qualifications and Iran also qualified through this tournament where Iran performed really well and won its 6 matches out of 8 and 2 matches ended up draw. Iran remained unbeatable in qualifying rounds and scored 26 goals throughout the tournament.
Iran World Cup Appearances
Iran was 1st appeared in FIFA World Cup back in 1978 whereas currently Iran is going to make their 5 appearance in FIFA World Cup. Iran for the 7 times in the history did not qualified for the main rounds of the FIFA World Cup but lots of expectations are affiliated with this team in FIFA World Cup 2018.
Iran Performances in FIFA World Cup
The performance of Iran football team in previous editions of World Cups is not much impressive as in most of the seasons this team was just eliminated from the 1st rounds and Iran have never succeed to made their place in Round 16 of FIFA World Cups.
Iran Coaching Staff
Carlos Queiroz is the manager of Iran whereas Oceano de Cruz and Marker Aghanjanyan are the assistant managers of this team. The goalkeeping coach of this team is Alexandra Lopes and Mikko Kujala is the fitness coach of this team.
Iran Key Players
Well Iran holds very experienced playing squad for FIFA World Cup 2018 but their key players are Karim Ansarifard and Reza Ghoochannejhad. Karim in his 61 international appearance scored 16 goals whereas Reza scored 17 international goals and both these players are playing are Forward in their team squad.
Iran Performance Preview
Well Iran have performed really well in this season as in last three matches they had performed outstandingly managed to won 2 of them while lost only 1 match. In 1st friendly match Iran defeated Sierra Leone by 4-0 and in other match they defeated Algeria by 2-1 while Iran lost their match against Tunisia by 0-1.
Iran Group and Matches Schedule in FIFA World Cup 2018
Iran is placed in group B along with former champion Spain, Morocco and Portugal. According to their official schedule of FIFA World Cup 2018 their 1st match is against Morocco on 15th June 2018, whereas in 2nd match Iran will face Spain on 20th June 2018 and their last group stage match is scheduled against Portugal on 25th June 2018.