41 called up to attend national soccer camp

IRNA - The Technical Committee of Iran's national soccer squad Sunday invited 41 players to participate in the training sessions. Iran is preparing for a four-sided international tournament in Hong Kong to be held on February 1-4.
The summoned players are:
Ebrahim Mirzapour, Jalal Kameli, Ali Badavi, Hossein Ka'bi, Iman Mob'ali (Foulad of Khuzestan), Davoud Fanaei, Afshin Peyrovani, Yahya Golmohammadi, Sohrab Entezari, Reza Jabbari (Persepolis), Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh, Alireza Nikbakht-Vahedi, Ali Samereh, Ahmad Mo'menzadeh, Yadollah Akbari (Esteqlal of Tehran), Seyed Mehdi Rahmati, Mehdi Rajabzadeh, Mehrzad Ma'danchi (Fajr-e Sepassi), Javad Nekounam, Mohammad Nosrati, Khodadad Azizi, Mohsen Bayatinia (Pas), Mehdi Amirabadi, Hadi Aqili, Hossein Kazemi (SAIPA), Reza Enayati (Abu Moslem), Hamid Aziz-Zadeh (Zob Ahan), Moharram Navidkia, Reza Hassanzadeh (Sepahan), Mehdi Shiri (Barq of Shiraz), Amin Mohtashami (Paykan), Rahman Ahmadi (Shamoushak). The international players Ali Daei and Minavand (Al Shabab of the United Arab Emirates), Farhad Majidi and Hamed Kavianpour (Al Wasl of the UAE), Ali Karimi and Javad Kazemian (Al Ahly of the UAE), Rahman Rezaei (Perugia of Italy), Mehdi Mahdavikia (Hamburg of Germany), and Vahid Hashemian (Bochum of Germany) have been also called up.
The invited players are to gather together at the venue of national soccer camps, Azadi Sports Complex, 10 km off western Tehran, at 11 am on Sunday, January 13, 2003. Four teams of Hong Kong, Iran, Denmark, and Uruguay will compete in the tournament. Homayoun Shahrokhi as the head coach and his assistant Hossein Faraki will steer Iran in the four-sided event.