It’s now less than five months until the World Cup kicks off in Brazil and if that hasn’t got you at least a little bit excited then I’d suggest you’re on the wrong website.
To celebrate the mounting World Cup fever, we’ve decided to profile the one young player from every single team who will be counted on in the summer.

To clarify, these golden boys will have to currently be 21 years of age or under (unless no player of that age is suitable) and capable of lighting up the tournament in Brazil. Iran’s World Cup 2014 Golden boy is Alireza Jehanbakhsh as follows;

Club: NEC Nijmegen

Caps: 3

Goals: 1

Right-winger Jahanbakhsh has prospered since moving to Europe in the summer, scoring four goals in 16 games for NEC Nijmegen in the Eredivisie.

As one of the few players in the Iran team to have made it to Europe he perhaps has more big game experience than plenty of his teammates, and he shone in both the Under-20 and Under-23 teams.

Coach Carlos Queiroz has seen something to admire in the winger, and he scored his first senior international goal in a 3-0 win over Thailand in November.

By Persian Football

 

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