Bolton's New Star Teymourian Feeling At Home

GOAL - Bolton Wanderers’ new star Andranik Teymourian is settling in nicely in England. The Armenian-born Iranian midfielder was in the headlines after his two goals against Wigan last week gave the Trotters a 3-1 win.

"To be the only Iranian playing in England makes me feel very proud," the 24 year-old told The Guardian.

"I'm hoping I can be a good advert for English football and particularly for Bolton Wanderers. My photograph has been in all the Iranian newspapers and the goals are being replayed all the time. Not many people in Iran knew much of Bolton but I hope there will be people in Tehran wearing Bolton shirts the next time I go home."

"The culture is not massively different for me in England because what I was doing in Iran I now do here," Teymourian says.

In an international league, Bolton is one of the most cosmopolitan clubs with a number of nationalities.

"The only problem is the language barrier and for the first five or six months that was really hard. It's getting easier now, though, and I've picked up a lot of the football terms.”

"The most important thing for me was to understand my manager and, after that, to learn the other things. Sometimes people here speak really fast and because of their strong accents I don't understand much. But I understand part of what Sam Allardyce is saying now and we get along really well."

The highly-rated former Abu Moslem star rejected offers from the Middle-East and Germany for the Premier League to head to the north-west.

“I wanted to play in England because the way the teams play football here you will not see anywhere else in the world. All the top clubs - Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool - are always on television back in Iran and I love their style of play.