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as far as I know the current Yemen NT is founded by the Saudis. (hard to believe I know) of course some players probably "don't like" Saudi Arabia but it's not like they will boycott the match.
 
the last time Syria played its home matches in Malaysia. so maybe they even play their home matches in East Asia again. obviously Yemen and Afghanistan also can't "host" their matches. but Iraq will host its WCQ matches after a while. I think the last time was in 2002. and from what I heard we have to play Iraq in Basra ,  not a really good choice. hope they take the security very seriously.

oh no way, the situation is even worse (comparing to few years ago) these days. this probably got boring for western media to report about Afghanistan but since we share the same language, whenever I listen the news there is always one explosion in Afghanistan per day among them. specially right now in middle of these "so called" negotiations. (even though I don't know how you can make a deal with them, they will never give up an inch about what they believe)
 
and remember football was somehow banned in Afghanistan in Taliban era, they don't like such things. an international football match in Afghanistan is a potential target for them.
 
btw looks like they are not happy with having their matches in Iran, they can have packed stadium here (even 100,000 big Azadi stadium was packed once for U23 match !!!) but it seems they are not happy with their financial agreement with Iranian football federation last time. they wanted Qatar but now they can't because Qatar is in the same group with them.

Full draw for AFC World Cup qualifiers- Second Round:
 
Group A:      
Group B:      
Group C:      
Group D:      
Group E:     
Group F:      
Group G:      
Group H:      
 
All the group winners and 4 best runner-up will advance to third round. 

I think Group E anf F are the easiest, Group A is also easy, it will be between Syria and China. if we consider AFC teams in 2018 WC as the main contender here I think only Iran and maybe Saudi Arabia are in a bit of danger in the first round.
 
Saudi Arabia and Palestine in the same group will cause problems. Saudi nationals can't/don't travel to Palestine, they will probably force FIFA/AFC to play Palestine's home match somewhere else.
 
assuming Qatar winning group E, we will have 5 runner-ups in the second round, I think group G won't be one of them. those SEA teams will take points from each other. Group H is also balanced after South Korea. will be hard for runner-up from that group to qualify. hard to pick the last one, but I guess it will be either C or D. maybe B.
 
so here is my prediction :
A:
B:
C:
D:
E:
F:
G:
H:

per previous tournaments, it will be the 5th best runner-up. this is the method AFC used in its previous tournaments.
 
of course it will be better to see the official document about it but I'm 90% sure about what I said.

guys! there's the full schedule of this championship in the first post of the thread...

you're always welcome  + i thought the same at 1st also 

oh thanks a lot. I was going to change my tomorrow plans to watch that. you just saved my day
 
I forgot World Championships follow a different program comparing to the World Cups.

matches for men's Sabre aren't scheduled tomorrow , but on Thursday 

Finally watched the last episode of the Big Bang Theory with czech dabing in czech TV Now when it´s over, seriously I have a feeling like I lost something..after so many years I followed it again and again, I can not believe that it´s really over.
 
but with that sequence of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, my second fav show when I was a young boy, just couldn´t be a better way to finish the whole show for me 

Tabriz is a city lol yes. that team was Petrochimi Tabriz, for whatever reason they translated their name in English to "Tabriz Petrochemical"
 
yeah they used to have all of remaining good cyclists in Asia (outside of Kazakh cyclists in UCI Pro tour) and Asia tour was piece of cake for them.

Did people there care about skateboarding at some point? Because I seem to vaguely remember it was a bit of a big deal (or better, a 'not super small deal') 15 years ago or something when kids were actually trying it and going to school on their skateboard, but nowadays maybe I see someone with a skateboard once every two weeks or something  
 
Adding skateboarding to the Olympics is the absolute perfect example of old people thinking what kids did many years ago is now cool.

yeah I was expecting more but the quality and also the quantity isn't impressive at all. I guess most big countries are busy with their own trial system and those "already selected" athletes are focusing on the main tournament. beside that we had European Games few days ago.
 
after all those ranking points is not THAT important. the only good thing in being top 4 is you most probably will get a bye in first round. no more. there are so many unseeded great wrestlers much better than top seeds.
 
as for Iran, we have a small team here. only 79kg here is our main guy.

this is unfair and extremely stupid . I already feel sorry for 7th CONCACAF team in the World Ranking.

this is unfair and extremely stupid . I already feel sorry for 7th CONCACAF team in the World Ranking.

this is unfair and extremely stupid . I already feel sorry for 7th CONCACAF team in the World Ranking.

According to the summons for the event, it was decided to cut the lighter and heavier categories due to lack of accomodation. 
 
It would have been better to axe the team poomsae.

this is unfair and extremely stupid . I already feel sorry for 7th CONCACAF team in the World Ranking.

this is unfair and extremely stupid . I already feel sorry for 7th CONCACAF team in the World Ranking.

this is unfair and extremely stupid . I already feel sorry for 7th CONCACAF team in the World Ranking.

another gold in taekwondo, for Armin Hadipour (his 3rd Universiade gold !!) the final was very intense , the Mongolian scored lots of turning kicks and made it close. also important 20pts for him in the Olympic ranking.
 
interesting thing here that we have only 6 weights in the program !!! no 54kg and no +87kg?! I can't see any special reason for that ! instead we have mixed pair poomsae and team Kyorugi event for both genders !?

on behalf of other users here (yeah I gave myself that permission ) I want to thank @hckosice for his hard work here. I usually check all results in all sports in multi sport events like this but since this website is TERRIBLE, I gave up doing that and only check the results involving Iranian athletes. this is good to see medalists name here and a direct link to the results without torturing yourself and checking that terrible website.
 

Thank you guys. I really appreciate it.

yeah, to @hckosice for his great, amazing job on this thread...
 
this time it's not just like many other times with other content...this time it's really a monstrous effort...

on behalf of other users here (yeah I gave myself that permission ) I want to thank @hckosice for his hard work here. I usually check all results in all sports in multi sport events like this but since this website is TERRIBLE, I gave up doing that and only check the results involving Iranian athletes. this is good to see medalists name here and a direct link to the results without torturing yourself and checking that terrible website.