On 21 January 2000, Iran national football team played against an Asian all-star side, in an exhibition testimonial match for Iranian captain Nader Mohammadkhani. Iran's lanky striker Ali Daei scored a Hat-trick. Asian all-star's best chances were minute 42, when Ruslan Baltiev's header hit the woodwork and another missed opportunity was Esam Salem's minute 66 penalty that was saved by Davoud Fanaei. Also Mohammed bin Hammam was the official VIP guest.
IRAN: GK Parviz Broumand RB Behrouz RahbarifarCB Mehdi Hasheminasab LB Nader Mohammadkhani(c) RM Esmail Halali CM Karim Bagheri CM Sirous DinmohammadiLM Mohammad Navazi RF Khodadad AziziCF Ali DaeiLF Ali MousaviSubstitutions:GK Davoud Fanaei for Broumand LB Sattar Hamedani for Mohammadkhani CM Hamed Kavianpour for Bagheri RM Abdollah Veisi for Halali LM Alireza Emamifar for Navazi MF Majid Basirat for ? FW Behnam Abolghasempour for ? Manager: Mansour Pourheidari Asia All-Stars: GK Mohamed Anyas RB Kazim Ali Abdulla CB Hong Myung-Bo(c)CB Trần Công MinhLB Dusit ChalermsanRM Jamal Taha CM Aleksandr KhvostunovLM Essam Hamad SalemRW Lee Dong-GookFW Badran Al-Shaqran CF Ruslan BaltiyevSubstitutions:GK Yevgeni Safonov for Anyas DF Atsuhiro Miura for Abdullah MF Nikolai Shirshov for Taha MF Yoo Sang-Chul for Al-Shaqran Managers: Khalil Ibrahim Al-Zayani Asad Taqi Junji Agura Man of the Match: Ali Daei (Iran)
Assistant referees: Hussein Qadanfari (Kuwait) Muhammed al-Mousawi (Oman) Fourth official: Jalal Moradi (Iran)
Unused Players The following players were members of the squads but did not get any game time
Iran Hadi Tabatabaei Javad Zarincheh Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh Mahmoud Fekri Laith Nobari Hamid Reza Estili Javad Nekounam
Asia All-Stars Afshin Peyrovani Abbas Obeid Jassim Tawan Sripan Adel Oqla
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