Tehran, April 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) Four Iranian clubs have sent a letter to the Iran Football League Organization requesting it to cancel the current season without any champion, Tasnim news agency reported.
Tractor, Machine Sazi, Gol Gohar and Nassaji are reluctant to continue the Iran Professional League (IPL) due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, reports Xinhua news agency.
Some other teams want to continue the league with 10 weeks remaining.
Soheil Mehdi, head of the league organization, has said they will soon take a decision on whether the league will continue or not.
Meanwhile, former Bayern Munich and Arsenal forward Lukas Podolski has said that Ali Karimi is the best ever football player in Iran's history, the Tehran Times daily reported on Monday.
"My first year at Bayern, it was a pleasure to play with this legend Ali Karimi. He is the best ever from Iran," said Podolski, who played for Bayern Munich from 2006 to 2009.
Karimi joined Bayern Munich in 2005 as a midfielder and scored three goals in 33 matches for the German giants.
He became the third Iranian after Ali Daei and Vahid Hashemian to try his luck with Bayern.
Karimi is arguably one of Asia's greatest players, and is often listed as one of the greatest Iranian players of all time.
Football in most parts of the world is stopped now due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
Source: IANS
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