Is it gone be a easy game?

Iran will have its first match of the four sided today by going against a weak Venezuelean team. Although Venezuela is considered one of the weaker teams of the world they have been surprising at times. The team which plays a 4-4-2 formation has managed to beat Uruguay, Paraguay, & Bolivia; two of which have already qualified for the world cup. Venezuela are the weakest of the 10 South American countries, but this is hardly surprising because the national sport is baseball. Originally memeber of CONCACAF, they made their international debut in 1938 and switched to CONMEBOL in 1958. The national record is awful, with just one win in the South American Championship and only a handful more in World Cup qualifiers, even though they have entered both regulary.

The clubs are weak, too, and three Copa Libertadores sime-finals are the best they have managed, A profiessional league was finally set up in 1956, but Venezuela have a long way to go if they are even to catch up with theother South American minnows.

YEAR FOUNDED: 1926

JOINED FIFA: 1952

Following are the results of Venezuela's most recent game:

29 Mar 2000 Ecuador - Venezuela 2-0 (1-0)

27 Apr 2000 Venezuela Argentina 0-4 (0-2)

05 Jun 2000 Colombia Venezuela 3-0 (2-0)

28 Jun 2000 Venezuela Bolivia 4-2 (2-0)

18 Jul 2000 Uruguay Venezuela 3-1 (1-1)

25 Jul 2000 Venezuela Chile 0-2 (0-0)

17 Aug 2000 Peru Venezuela 1-0 (0-0)

02 Sep 2000 Paraguay Venezuela 3-0 (3-0)

08 Oct 2000 Venezuela Brazil 0-6 (0-5)

16 Nov 2000 Venezuela Ecuador 1-2 (0-2)

29 Mar 2001 Argentina Venezuela 5-0 (2-0)

25 Apr 2001 Venezuela Colombia 2-2 (1-0)

03 Jun 2001 Bolivia Venezuela 5-0 (3-0)

15 Aug 2001 Venezuela Uruguay 2-0 (0-0)

05 Sep 2001 Chile Venezuela 0-2 (0-0)

07 Oct 2001 Venezuela Peru 3-0 (0-0)

09 Nov 2001 Venezuela Paraguay 3-1 (3-1)

The Iranian team will get a check worth of 24 million tomans if they manage to win the match.

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