Baqeri voted year’s best player

[Afshin]

I am a little confused, 2 days ago PTV reported that Khalili was voted the best player of the year, now they have reported Bagheri was voted best player!

PTV - Persepolis’ Karim Baqeri has been appointed the best Iranian football player of the year by Iran’s Physical Education Organization.  In a ceremony held in Iran’s National Olympic Academy, Baqeri was voted player of the year by Iranian soccer coaches and the heads of various sports media outlets.

The 34-year-old, capped 80 times for Iran’s national team, has been playing for Persepolis since 2002, one year after he ended his international career.

Baqeri joined Arminia Bielefeld in 1997 and played for the German club until 2000 when he left for England’s Charlton Athletic.

His Persepolis teammate, Mohsen Khalili, and Esteqlal’s Mojtaba Jabbari were the other two nominees for the player of the year title.

Persepolis had two other winners at the ceremony. Afshin Qotbi was voted the best coach of the year and Mohsen Khalili was voted the top scorer of Iran’s Premier League, together with Rah Ahan’s Hadi Asghari.

Abu Moslem’s Ivan Petrovic was appointed the best foreign player of the year. Mehdi Rahmati from Mes Kerman was named the best goalkeeper while Sepahan Isfahan’s Ehsan Hajsafi won the title of the year’s best young player.

Vahid Shamsaei and Mohammad Khorakchi were voted the best futsal player and coach of the year respectively.

The rest of the winners include:

Mohammad Taheri (top scorer in Iran’s futsal league); Mostafa Nazari and Reza Naseri (best goalkeepers in Iran’s futsal league); Fahimeh Zarei (best player of the year in women’s futsal); Maryam Irandoust (best coach in women’s football); Afsaneh Eqbal and Bayan Mahmoudi (top scorers in women’s football league); Ali Naderi (best beach football player); Saeid Mozaffari (best referee) and Hossein Shahmoradi (best futsal referee).

[BrankoWasTheBEST]

Why are you confused? This is Iran, Ali Aftabehbadi and IRI. What do you expect? They change whatever they want. It is harf e zoor but I think Khalili was voted best goalscorer/forward but something was lost in translation. You know how fantastically educated and professional our officials are, especially when they translate into another language looool. 

[aliirooni]

that goes to tell you how screwed up the media is in Iran. They say whatever they want and there is no accountability on anyway as long as they don't piss off some mullah they are ok