Carlos Queiroz names Iran squad

TEHRAN,May 21(MNA)--Iran football coach Carlos Queiroz named his 24-man squad for World Cup 2014 qualifier against Uzbekistan. Iran will play Albania (May 27) in Istanbul’s training camp and then travel to Tashkent to face Uzbekistan on June 3. The Squad Goalkeepers Mehdi Rahmati, Alireza Haghighi, Shahab Gordan, Mohsen Foruzan Defenders Pejman Montazeri, Jalal Hosseini, Mehrdad Pooladi, Hossein Mahini, Shoja Khalilzadeh, Ehsan Hajsafi, Khosro Heydari, Hadi Aghili Midfielders Javad Nekounam, Pejman Noori, Ghasem Dehnavi, Andranik Teymourian, Mohammad Ebrahimi, Ali Karimi, Mojtaba Jabbari, Ferydoon Zandi, Omid Nazari Forwards Karim Ansarifard, Gholamreza Rezaei, Mohammad-Reza Khalatbari Iran are grouped with South Korea, Uzbekistan, Qatar and Lebanon in the final round of Asian World Cup qualifying and need to finish at least in second place to directly qualify for Brazil 2014.