Iran Press /Iran news: In Russia, Iran national football team excelled and were precariously close to knocking Spain out of the World Cup.
Iran national football team's approach was daring, but modern, at times they out-thought and outran top European opposition, Iran Press reported.
Iranian footballers were no longer the ambassadors of ‘radical non-possession’ which had made Iran hard to beat at the 2014 World Cup, but yielded little result. In qualification, Iran went 18 matches unbeaten. Sardar Azmoun, leading the line, Alireza Jahanbakhsh and Mahdi Tarem have greatly bolstered Iran’s attack.
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Meanwhile, Iran's defensive midfielder Omid Ebrahimi said on Saturday that Iran's national soccer team will attend the 2019 AFC competitions with high confidence following a good performance at 2018 World Cup in Russia.
Iran had a training camp in Doha for two weeks since Dec. 17.
Iran have been drawn along with Iraq, Yemen and Vietnam in Group D of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.
The competition will be held in the United Arab Emirates from January 5 to February 1. Iran will start the campaign with a match against Yemen on January 7.
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