Iran
Part 4 : Sports
By Poorya Mahdavi
Sports in Iran like any other country is a huge topic that is followed intensively by all people, with activity's such as soccer, weightlifting, basketball, volleyball, futsal and many other sports. Tehran was the first city to host the Asain games in 1974 out of the whole of West Asia.
In the photo above, my cousins (centre and right) and I (left) are outside the Azadi stadium waiting for the gates to open for everyone to enter to watch the showdown of two of the most popular Iranian soccer teams going head to head in a grand final fixture, the two teams Persepolis (Red) played a team known as Esteghlal FC for the league final, however unfortunately the team we were supporting didnt come out on top and lost the game in the closing moments 1-0, the experience all in all was a great opportunity as I saw first hand how big the sport of soccer was in Iran as the stadium was completely sold out, which was incredible as the Azadi stadium is the worlds forth largest soccer stadium.
Apart from soccer, another sport that is considered very important to many Iranian's, is weight lifting, this is all thanks to a very important man known as Hossein Reza Zadeh, who is regarded as one of the greatest weight lifters of all time, he holds the world record for two types of weight lifting super heavyweight class, first being the clean and jerk and total where he lifted an incredible amount of 263.5 kg, a small youtube video regarding his time as a weight lifter can be found here.
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Incase you missed last weeks blog here is a link for it right here!
Part 1: Introduction
http://travelbuddiez.blogspot.com.au/2017/04/iran-by-poorya.html
Part 2: Architecture
http://travelbuddiez.blogspot.com.au/2017/04/iran-part-2-by-poorya-mahdavi.html
Part 3: Cuisine
https://travelbuddiez.blogspot.com.au/2017/05/iran-part-3-cuisine-by-poorya-mahdavi.html
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