Amari: The refrigerator is in Tehran on Saturday / The list of the head coach of the national basketball team has been completed

In an interview with IRNA on Tuesday, Massoud Amari added: “The national team will have a rest this morning, but we will resume training in the afternoon so that the campers can review the training and fulfill the demands of the head coach on the field.”

He continued: with the addition and return of Sajjad Mashayekhi and Arsalan Kazemi, we followed the training and according to the plan, Behnam Yakhchali is scheduled to arrive in Tehran on Friday morning to attend the camp from Saturday and train with other national team players. Of course, he had a good performance in his last game and is in good physical condition, and we are waiting to see him in training on Saturday.

The head of the Iranian national basketball team emphasized: “According to the current situation, the players are examined every day, and if a person is suspicious, he is immediately removed from the camp so that the necessary tests can be taken from him and repeated.” If the test is positive, it will be quarantined and if it is negative, it will be returned to the national team.

Regarding the physical condition of the players, Amari said: “Considering the condition of the league and the fact that we started the camps quickly, the condition of the children is good and they are in good condition. Everything is in good condition and there is a problem with injury or getting sick.” We do not have a corona and we are going according to plan.

He mentioned the number of names announced for the World Cup window: the initial list was 25, which was reduced to 24 due to the absence of Hamed Haddadi due to quarantine problems in China, and now according to the announcement New names At this stage of the camp, the number of national team players has reached 19, and it remains to be seen whether the head coach of the national team will have an opinion in this regard, and we will see a decrease in the number of people or not?

The head of the Iranian national basketball team, in response to the question whether a program has been prepared in this regard due to the cancellation of the friendly matches of our national basketball team with the Lebanese and Jordanian teams: considering that both teams are scheduled They were supposed to be present in Tehran, but due to the simultaneous Arab Cup competitions with our camps, they apologized for being in Tehran because they wanted to be present in these competitions. Another decision was to hold a meeting with a team of foreign players working in the Iranian Basketball Premier League, but due to the corona and the closure of the league, رفته they went on leave and this issue was also ruled out. Currently, the head coach of the national team, Mostafa Hashemi, is under investigation, and we may play with one or two teams in the Premier League.

Iran’s national basketball team is preparing to participate in the second qualifying round of the 2023 World Cup.

The national team will play in the second window of the 2023 World Cup qualifiers on Thursday, March 26, against Kazakhstan and on Sunday, March 29, against Syria. These competitions are hosted by Iran.

In the latest decision of Mostafa Hashemi, the head coach of the Iranian national basketball team, 19 players remained among the Jordanians.

1- Matin Aghajanpour – Kaleh
2- Jalal Aghamiri – Kaleh
3- Mohammad Jamshidi – Gorgan Municipality
4- Mohammad Hassanzadeh – Mehram Tehran
5- Navid Khajehzadeh – Avijeh Sanat Parsa Mashhad
6- Saeed Davarpanah – Mehram Tehran
7- Ehsan Dalirzehan – Abadan Oil Refinery
8- Navid Rezaeifar – Chemist of Qom
9- Arman Zanganeh – Isfahan Steel
10- Asghar Kardost – Kerman Copper Industry
11- Arsalan Kazemi – Isfahan Steel
12- Mehdi Kamrani – Mehram Tehran
13- Sajjad Mashayekhi – Isfahan Steel
14-Salar Manji – Shimidar Qom
15- Meysam Mirzaei – Gorgan Municipality
16- Mohammad Sina Vahedi – Shimidar Qom
17- Amir Hossein Yazerloo – Kaleh
18- Behnam Yakhchali – MBC Germany
19- Mohammad Yousef Vand – Chemist of Qom
Technical staff: Masoud Amari (supervisor), Mostafa Hashemi (head coach), Mehran Hatami (coach), Kamran Jamshidvand (coach), Behrouz Mahdavi (bodybuilder) and Seyed Ali Haliyeh (logistics)