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Persianfootball.com – TEHRAN, 28 players were named to participate in the Iranian national team’s upcoming training camp in Austria from May 12 to 31.

Besides the already earlier eliminated Sepahan trio Omid Ebrahimi, Shoja Khalilzadeh and Yaghoub Karimi and the injured Mohsen Mosalman, four players were omitted from the squad.

The dropped players are Persepolis starlet Payam Sadeghian, Foolad Khuzestan left-back Mehrdad Jamaati, young Tractor Sazi goalkeeper Hamed Lak and veteran striker Reza Norouzi of Naft Tehran.

While ten legionnaires from Europe, MLS and the Persian Gulf, including youngsters Sardar Azmoun and Alireza Jahanbakhsh, were added, no new domestic players were invited, which means veteran star playmaker Ali Karimi will almost certainly not be considered for World Cup anymore.

Iran have to name a preliminary 30-man squad to FIFA until May 13 and then announce the final 23-man World Cup roster until June 2.

Below comes the full list of invited players.

Goalkeepers:

Daniel Davari – Eintracht Braunschweig, GER

Alireza Haghighi – Sporting Covilha, POR

Rahman Ahmadi – Sepahan Esfahan

Sousha Makani – Foolad Khuzestan

Defenders:

Khosro Heydari – Esteghlal Tehran

Hossein Mahini – Persepolis Tehran

Steven Beitashour – Vancouver Whitecaps, CAN

Pejman Montazeri – Umm Salal, QAT

Jalal Hosseini – Persepolis Tehran

Amir-Hossein Sadeghi – Esteghlal Tehran

Mohammad-Reza Khanzadeh – Zob Ahan Esfahan

Ahmad Alenemeh – Naft Tehran

Hashem Beikzadeh – Esteghlal Tehran

Ehsan Hajsafi – Sepahan Esfahan

Mehrdad Pouladi – Persepolis Tehran

Midfielders:

Javad Nekounam – Kuwait SC, KUW

Andranik Teymourian – Esteghlal Tehran

Reza Haghighi – Persepolis Tehran

Ghasem Hadadifar – Zob Ahan Esfahan

Bakhtiar Rahmani – Foolad Khuzestan

Strikers:

Ashkan Dejagah – Fulham FC, ENG

Masoud Shojaei – UD Las Palmas, ESP

Alireza Jahanbakhsh – NEC Nijmegen, NED

Mohammad-Reza Khalatbari – Persepolis Tehran

Mehdi Sharifi – Sepahan Esfahan

Reza Ghoochannejhad – Charlton Atheltic, ENG

Karim Ansarifard – Tractor Sazi Tabriz

Sardar Azmoun – Rubin Kazan, RUS