TEAM COMPOSITION

IRI / Iran

Team manager	POUR AROJI Ali
Coach	AKBARI Payman
Assistant coach	EBRAHIMI Reza
2nd assistant coach	MOJARADI Keyvan
Doctor
Physiotherapist	MOHAMMADI FARD Ali

	No.	Name	Lastname	Shirt Name	Birthdate	Height	Weight	Spike	Block	Club
	2	Milad	Ebadipour Ghara H.	M.Ebadipour	17.10.1993	196	78	350	310	Shahrdari Urmia
	3	Saman	Faezi	S.Faezi	23.08.1991	204	87	343	335	Paykan
C	4	Hamed	Bagherpour K.	H.Bagherpour K.	02.03.1991	198	90	319	313	Bank Keshavarzi
	6	Farhad	Salafzoon	F. Salafzoon	06.12.1992	200	81	320	313	Matin Varna
	8	Soheil	Ahmadi	S. Ahmadi	26.02.1991	197	86	326	318	Mizan Mashhad
	9	Sajad	Dehnavi	S.Dehnavi	02.04.1993	198	89	337	332	Mizan Mashhad
	10	Saeid	Shirood Gh.	S.Shirood	24.03.1991	195	85	328	321	Matin Varna
	11	Mojtaba	Mirzajanpour M.	M.Mirzajanpour	07.10.1991	205	88	355	348	Paykan
	13	Hamed	Tariverdi V.	H.Tariverdi	05.11.1992	191	86	318	313	Saipa
L	15	Naser	Rahimi P.	N.Rahimi	27.06.1991	191	73	326	310	KALLEH
	16	Rasoul	Najafi	R.Najafi	23.07.1991	196	85	325	317	Vezarat Defa
	17	Reza	Ghara	R.Ghara	31.07.1991	200	87	351	331	Kalleh

C=Captain L=Libero

Team profile

Iran are aiming to be fully prepared for U23 World Championship. The team started a joint camp with the Iran senior men’s team under coach Julio Velasco four months ago and after two months trained under the full supervision of Peyman Akbari and his coaching staff. The team has a number of outstanding players who have already experienced international competitions at youth and junior levels.

Coach profile

Peyman Akbari coached the Peykan Club for three years before becoming coach of Iran’s Under-23 team. He has a Master’s in Physical Education from Tehran Azad University and is a university instructor in physical science.

As a player, he was with the Iran Junior team for two years and played for the senior team for 14 years, including seven as captain. With Iran, he won a gold medal in the Central Asian Championship, and a silver and bronze medal in the Asian Championship. As a coach with Peykan, he won gold in the Iran Super League in 2010 and at the Asian Club Championship the following year, and was twice voted Best Coach in the Iran league. He also won gold with the Iran Under-23 team at the Central Asian Championship.