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Reza Darvish
Reza Darvish () is an Iranian sports manager. He is the current manager of Persepolis Football Club and was formerly involved with the Saipa Football Club. Executive background * Management of Saipa Football Club * Management of Persepolis Football Club Management of Persepolis On January 13, 2022, Reza Darvish, after being selected as the Manager of Persepolis Club, announced in an interview with a Fars News Agency reporter: "Our goal and that of all Persepolisians is to join hands to somehow solve the club's problems." He added: "My most important goal is the vitality of the team and the fans." Margins His selection as the manager of Persepolis Club provoked criticism from the Iranian sports media and some Persepolis veterans. In an example, Hossein Kalani told Mehr News Agency: "I think his dependence on Mr. Sajjadi ( Minister of Sports) led him to reach a very large and important club football seat in the country"He also added that:Persepolis has fallen from "pit" t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tehran, Iran
Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran County), Central District. With a population of around 9.8 million in the city as of 2025, and 16.8 million in the metropolitan area, Tehran is the List of largest cities of Iran, most populous city in Iran and Western Asia, the Largest metropolitan areas of the Middle East, second-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East after Cairo, and the 24th most populous metropolitan area in the world. Greater Tehran includes several municipalities, including, Karaj, Eslamshahr, Shahriar, Tehran province, Shahriar, Qods, Iran, Qods, Malard, Golestan, Tehran, Golestan, Pakdasht, Qarchak, Nasimshahr, Parand, Pardis, Andisheh and Fardis. In the classical antiquity, part of the territory of present-day Tehran was occupied by Rhages (now Ray, Iran, Ray), a prominent Medes, Median city almost entirely des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iranian Students News Agency
The Iranian Students' News Agency () (ISNA, Persian: ) established in December 1999, is a news agency run by Iranian university students. Position Based in Tehran and founded in 1999 by Abolfazl Fateh-an ex-aide to former Iranian presidential candidate and opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi-ISNA is often quoted by the major international news agencies and has been widely regarded as "a politically moderate news source" in Iran. "Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) was born in an era of major paradigmatic transformations in Iran's press and public discourse, which took place largely under the presidency of reformist Mohammad Khatami (1997-2005)". ISNA covers a variety of national and international topics.Engber, Daniel. What's With the Iranian Students News Agency?, ''Slate'', 2 February 2006. Retrieved 7 February 2007. Editors and correspondents are themselves students in a variety of subjects, many of them are volunteers (nearly 1000). Abolfazl Fateh,the agency's main fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Births
Events January * January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union. * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti enters the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football In Iran
Football is the most popular sport in Iran, with wrestling and volleyball as close contenders. Football has been a part of life for Iranians for many decades now and is played in schools, streets, and football clubs nationwide. For political and social reasons, women's football grew little from the 1980s to 2020, and clubs such as Persepolis and Esteghlal did not even have a women's football team in these years. History Early days Football was played in Iran as early as 1898, when a team of British residents of Esfahan played a team of Armenians. In south western Iran the game was introduced in 1907 by British sailors and workers. At that time they were working at port cities Bushehr, Khorramshahr, Bandar Abbas and major oil refineries such as Abadan and Masjed Soleiman in the province of Khuzestan, the latter area even boasting a football league. The local Iranian employees of the company first looked on, and then began replacing individual players on the teams, until they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persian Wikipedia
Persian Wikipedia () is the Persian language version of Wikipedia. The Persian version of Wikipedia was started in December 2003. As of , it has articles, registered users, and files, and it is the largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 22nd in terms of depth among Wikipedias. It passed 1,000 articles on 16 December 2004, and 200,000 on 10 July 2012. Roozbeh Pournader is the project's first administrator, developer, and bureaucrat. It is the most popular language version of Wikipedia in Iran and Afghanistan. Number of articles In January 2013, nearly 50,000 new articles were added within a month. A few days later, on 19 February 2013, the Persian Wikipedia reached 300,000 articles, ranking it 18th among all Wikipedias based on the number of articles. It currently has articles, making it the 19th largest Wikipedia by article count. History of the number of articles: * 19 December 2003: started * 18 February 2006: reached 10,000 articles * 30 October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esteghlal F
Esteghlal or Esteqlal () is a Persian language, Persian word meaning ''independence''. It is used as a prefix by many Iranian association football clubs and Armenian football clubs. This includes: * Esteghlal F.C. – Iranian football club * Esteghlal Ahvaz F.C. – Iranian football club * Esteghlal Meli-Sanati Khuzestan F.C. – Iranian football club * Shahrdari Bandar Anzali F.C., Esteghlal Bandar Anzali F.C. – Iranian football club * Esteghlal Ardabil F.C. – Iranian football club * Esteghlal Bojnurd F.C. – Iranian football club * Esteghlal Buer Ahmad F.C. – Iranian football club * Esteghlal Dushanbe – Tajikistani football club * :ru:Истиклол (футбольный клуб, Ташкент), Esteghlal Tashkent — Uzbekistani football club * Esteghlal Kish F.C. – defunct Iranian football club * Esteghlal-Kotayk Abovian – Armenian football club * Esteghlal Rasht F.C. – defunct Iranian football club * Esteghlal Takestan F.C. – Iranian football club * Esteghlal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free Agent
In professional sports, a free agent is a player or manager who is eligible to sign with other clubs or franchises; i.e., not under contract to any specific team. The term is also used in reference to a player who is under a contract at present but who is allowed to solicit offers from other teams. In some circumstances, the free agent's options are limited by the league's rules. Free agency was severely restricted in many sports leagues, instead clubs had a reserve clause which allowed them to retain players indefinitely. Usage Association football In professional association football, a free agent is either a player that has been released by a professional association football club and now is no longer affiliated with any league, or a player whose contract with their current club has expired and is thus free to join any other club under the terms of the Bosman ruling. Free agents do not have to be signed during the normal transfer window that is implemented in some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Sport And Youth (Iran)
The Ministry of Sport and Youth (, ''Vezârat-è Varzeš-o javânân-è Jomhuri-è Eslâmi-ye Irân'') is the government ministry of youth affairs and sports in the Islamic Republic of Iran. It was founded in 2010 after the Physical Education Organization was dissolved. Owning Persepolis and Esteghlal The Ministry of Sport and Youth owns two major clubs of Iran, Persepolis and Esteghlal. The supporters of these clubs are asking for privatization from many years ago. The Ministry of Sport and Youth also chooses the Persepolis and Esteghlal managers. In 18 June 2019, Persepolis supporters protests against Iraj Arab, managing board and the Ministry of Sport and Youth, because of the possibility of ending the cooperation with their coach. Protests by supporters of Persepolis were responded by riot police. Also, Supporters of Esteghlal had protested in the past. Esteghlal fans among Iranian football teams have always been exposed to injustices such as budget cuts. Also, Esteghlal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the northeast, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, and the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. With a Ethnicities in Iran, multi-ethnic population of over 92 million in an area of , Iran ranks 17th globally in both List of countries and dependencies by area, geographic size and List of countries and dependencies by population, population. It is the List of Asian countries by area, sixth-largest country entirely in Asia and one of the world's List of mountains in Iran, most mountainous countries. Officially an Islamic republic, Iran is divided into Regions of Iran, five regions with Provinces of Iran, 31 provinces. Tehran is the nation's Capital city, capital, List of cities in Iran by province, largest city and financial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamid Sajjadi
Seyed Hamid Sajjadi Hazaveh (, born 21 March 1969) was the Minister of Sport and Youths of Iran, from August 25, 2021 to August 1, 2023. He is also an Iranian retired middle distance and long distance runner. He represented Iran at the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1996 Summer Olympics. Sajjadi holds multiple indoor and outdoor national track records for Iran. On February 23, 2023, his helicopter crashed while visiting Baft county. He survived from accident, but his deputy was killed. Running career Sajjadi ran the men's 5,000 m race at the 1992 Summer Olympics, although he did not qualify past the preliminaries with a time of 14:04.54 (min:sec). Sajjadi also ran the men's 10,000 metres at the 1996 Summer Olympics, finishing in 29:22.65. Throughout the 1990s, he was a prolific steeplechaser, specializing in the 3000 metres steeplechase in which he finished in first place at the 1991 Asian Athletics Championships. Academic and administrative career Sajjadi has a PhD in physiolog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
