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Team Melli

By Gigi Romano

Team Melli

By Gigi Romano

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Across coups, revolution, war, and sanctions, Iran's national football team has remained one of the country's few truly shared public languages. Team Melli is more than a squad and more than a crest; it is a moving national stage where pride, pressure, and identity collide in ninety minutes-sometimes in triumph, sometimes in heartbreak, always under a gaze that reaches far beyond sport.
This book traces Iran's journey from the foundations of modern football and the rise to Asian dominance, through the upheavals that reshaped public life after 1953 and 1979, and into an era where World Cup qualification became routine even as advancement stayed elusive. It follows the rivalries that carry history on their backs, the coaches who inherit impossible expectations, and the players who perform under interpretations they cannot fully control. The result is a fact-based narrative of endurance: how a national team keeps returning to the world's biggest tournament-and why, whenever it does, the world cannot look away.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
378
Release Date:
2025-12-23
Publication Date:
2025-12-23
Publisher:
Independently Published
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1970852461
ISBN13:
9781970852462
Weight:
547 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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