Portugal v Iran - Starting Line-Ups - Ali Daei on the Bench, Deco, Figo, Pauleta and Ronaldo Start for Portugal

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Portugal v Iran - Starting Line-Ups - Ali Daei on the Bench, Deco, Figo, Pauleta and Ronaldo Start for Portugal

Submitted by Pavlos Skoufis on Sat, 17/06/2006 - 13:15.

The full starting line-ups and the substitutes on the bench for the Portugal v Iran World Cup Group D match. Iran's veteran captain was left out of the starting line-up, Scolari brings in Deco.

Coach Branko Ivankovic left out of the line-up Iran's veteran captain Ali Daei and will use him if things don't go according to plan for Team Melli. Yahya Golmohammadi will wear the captain's arm wrist and will play alongside Mehdi Mahdavikia, Ali Karimi, Vahid Hashemian and Javad Nekounam.

Luiz Felipe Scolari starts the game with Costinha, Nuno Valente, Luis Figo, Pauleta, Ricardo Carvalho and Christiano Ronaldo, who was not certain to start.

PORTUGAL

IRAN


1. RICARDO	1. MIRZAPOUR Ebrahim
5. FERNANDO MEIRA	2. MAHDAVIKIA Mehdi
6. COSTINHA	(C)4. GOLMOHAMMADI Yahya
7. LUIS FIGO (C)	5. REZAEI Rahman
9. PAULETA	6. NEKOUNAM Javad
13. MIGUEL	8. KARIMI Ali
14. NUNO VALENTE	9. HASHEMIAN Vahid
16. RICARDO CARVALHO	13. KAABI Hossein
17. CRISTIANO RONALDO	14. TEYMOURIAN Andranik
18. MANICHE	20. NOSRATI Mohammad
20. DECO	21. MADANCHI Mehrzad

Substitutes


12. QUIM	12. ROUDBARIAN Hassan
22. PAULO SANTOS	22. TALEBLOO Vahid
2. PAULO FERREIRA	3. BAKHTIARIZADEH Sohrab
3. CANEIRA	7. ZANDI Ferydoon
4. RICARDO COSTA	10. DAEI Ali
8. PETIT	11. KHATIBI Rasoul
10. HUGO VIANA	15. BORHANI Arash
11. SIMAO SABROSA	16. ENAYATI Reza
15. BOA MORTE	17. KAZEMEIAN Javad
19. TIAGO	18. NAVIDKIA Moharram
21. NUNO GOMES	19. SADEQI Amir Hossein
23. HELDER POSTIGA	23. SHOJAEI Masoud