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2009 FIVB Men's Grand Champions Cup

Osaka - Nagoya, Japan
18 - 23 November 2009

IRI / Iran - Team Composition

Team manager	KHOSHKHABAR Amir
Head coach	MADANI GHAREHLAR Hossein
Assistant coach	ATAEI NOURI Behrouz
Doctor	FARHADI Ali
Therapist / trainer	AFSHARDOUST Mahmoud
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	No.	Name	Lastname	Shirt Name	Birthdate	Height	Weight	Spike	Block	Club
	1	Adel	Gholami	A. Gholami	9/02/1986	195	88	341	330	Khatam Ardakan
	2	Javad	Mohammadnejadi R.	J. Mohammadnejadi	22/03/1985	202	83	343	327	FOULAD UROMIA
L	3	Mohammad Reza	Hosseini Pouya	M.R. Hosseini	23/08/1994	194	83	320	313	Saipa
	4	Mir Saeid	Marouflakrani	S. Marouf	20/10/1985	189	81	331	311	EMMA VILLAS SIENA
	5	Mansour	Zadvan	M. Zadvan	6/01/1987	202	90	350	327	AZAD UNIVERSITY
	6	Seyed Mohammad	Mousavi Eraghi	Seyed	22/08/1987	203	86	362	344	PAYAM KHORASAN
	7	Hamzeh	Zarini	H. Zarini	18/10/1985	198	98	351	330	Kalleh Mazandaran
L	8	Ahsanollah	Shirkavand	A. Shirkavand	18/03/1981	180	75	300	296	Matin Varna
C	9	Alireza	Nadi	A. Nadi	2/09/1980	200	90	334	320	Kaleh
	10	Mohssen	Andalib	M. Andalib	17/07/1983	191	83	336	307	Paykan
	11	Arash	Sadeghiany	A. Sadeghiany	15/02/1985	191	90	347	327	PETROSHIMI
	12	Farhad	Nazari Afshar	F. Nazari	22/05/1984	195	85	345	331	Matin Varna
	13	Mehdi	Mahdavi	M. Mahdavi	13/02/1984	190	82	330	315	Paykan
	14	Arash	Keshavarzi	A. Keshavarzi	16/02/1987	198	91	320	305	AZAD UNIVERSITY
	15	Arash	Kamalvand	A. Kamalvand	11/05/1989	201	91	345	325	SAIPA
L	16	Abdolreza	Alizadeh Gh.	A. Alizadeh	19/02/1987	183	80	272	252	Shahrdari Urmia
	17	Rahman	Davoodi	R. Davoodi	18/02/1988	195	95	348	328	Matin Varamin
	18	Mohammad	Mohammad Kazem	M. M. Kazem	28/09/1985	200	92	350	323	Matin Varna
	19	Farhad	Ghaemi	F. Ghaemi	28/08/1989	197	73	355	335	ZIRAAT BANK
	20	Farhad	Salafzoon	F. Salafzoon	6/12/1992	200	81	320	313	SAIPA

C=Captain L=Libero

Team profile

8^th in 1989 in the Asian Championship in SEOUL (KOREA)

7^th place in 1991 in the Asian Championship in Perth (AUSTRALIA)

Since .1993 the IRANIAN National Senior Men’s Team has been usually one of the top team at the continental level .

5^th place in the Asian Championship in THAILAND 1993 .

4^th place in the Asian Championship in KOREA 1995 .

5^th place in the Asian Games in HIROSHIMA (JAPAN) 1994 .

In April of that year our National Sr.Team’s players were selected by the Federation to participate in the 9^th Asian Sr.Men’s Championship of 1997 in QATAR . Event though some of the players were newly chosen from different clubs , our team took part in Q/T of world & stood in the second place . Then we went to the world S.R.Men’s Championship of 1998 Sapporo (JAPAN) and ranked 19^th there .

5^th place in the Asian Championship in KOREA 2001 .

2^nd Place in the Asian Games 2002 in BUSAN-KOREA .

3^rd Place in the Asian Championship in China 2003 .

Defeating Australia , Japan , Korea , and Algeria in the 2004 WOQT in japan .

6^th place in Asian Championship in Thailand 2005 .

1^st Place in the 1^st Islamic Solidarity Games Saudi Arabia 2005 .

5^th Place in the Asian Championship in Indonesia 2007.

1^st Place in the AVC Cup in Thailand 2008 .

The present team benefits from the youngster players . under the leadership of the young head coach , Hossein Madani .

Coach profile

Hossein Maadani is a former Iranian National Team player, joining the squad in 1987 and taking part in the Asian Games in Hiroshima, Japan in 1994.

Before being named head coach of the Men’s National Team in 2008, Maadani played for the following clubs: Esteglal , Seda Sima,Bank Keshavarzi, Bonyad Shahid, Homa, Fat'h , Peykan and Daneshgah Azad.

Maadani was born on May 7, 1971 and has a degree in chemical engineering.

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