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Carlos Queiroz has said that he is very proud of the way Iran’s football team played the game and the way they fought against Iraq in the quarterfinals of the 2015 AFC Asian Cup.
Iran lost to Iraq in the AFC Asian Cup quarter-finals on penalties, failing to break a 39-year drought after winning three successive tournaments from 1968 to 1976.
Ali Daei, the world’s all-time leading goal scorer, has sent a message to Iran’s national soccer team captain, wishing him and the squad every success in the 2015 Asian Cup.
Iran men's national volleyball team has finished in the first place at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, after it achieved a convincing victory over the Japanese squad.