Iran will not play Argentina

PLDC - Branko Ivankovich rejected the rumors regarding a friendly between Iran and Argentina before the world cup drawings are done, and said that no friendlies will be played until that date and the rest of the national team's friendly game schedule will depend on the grouping of the team in world cup.

Branko told reporters that there are always talks between football federations of different nations to play friendlies, but we will not play a game just like most other teams until the WC drawing is done.

Regarding the IPL and its level Branko told reporters that IPL is getting closer to becoming a good football league and it has almost reached the level of most second tier European leagues such as the Swiss or the Austrian leagues.

At the end Branko briefly talked about the Perspolis-Pas game and talked about the fact that when these many people show up to watch a game in the middle of the week proves how crucial the game was and Branko also mentioned that it was a close game but Perspolis played a better football game in the match.

Armin Afshar.