Football, most similar phenomenon to life
In the winter of 2021, the thirteenth issue of Angah magazine was published, with the subject “Football; As a Battle” and an illustration by Iman Safaei of Adel Ferdosipour. Each issue of Angah focuses on a different subject, and this time it’s football, which it explores and examines from various angles.
You may read articles by Naser Fakouhi, Ali Varamini, Jasem Ghazbanpour, and Fateh Sahba at the beginning of this issue. In an interview with Jahangir Kowsari, Chia Foadi discusses sports on television, Adel Ferdosipour, and the “90” TV show. Other interviews include “There is no justice in football” with Iranian cartoonist Javad Alizadeh, and “Alas! This issue includes articles such as “From this Farhad killer” by Adel Ferdosipour and “The negative film was more significant than us” by Reza Mo’aterian, an Iranian photographer.
In his piece “Perspolis is the master of Esteghlal, Esteghlal is the master of perspolis,” Amir Mohammd Soleymani investigates the trash talk in Tehran Derby. In her article, Banoushe Farhat remembers Ahmadreza Abedzadeh, and towards the end of the issue, Fatemeh Samadi discusses female presence in stadiums.
Hamid Moazeni writes in his article titled “Football is life” : “Football is an international mediator that exists between war and peace and begs to get out of this by the help of culture. As one of Iranian analyzer said, football is the most similar phenomenon to our lives; Human life has the potential to evolve from an innate effort into something spiritual, intellectual, creative, fascinating, and passionate”.
Football has a different meaning to each one of us. To get absorbed into it, watching the matches and being a fan of a team with no expectations, might be the importance of this sport. Football, according to Arash Tanhai, is similar to people who battle to the death for their independence and the prosperity of their country.
Table Of content
7
Editorial
> Arash Tanhai
8
Football; vagabonds and intellectuals
> Naser Fakouhi
14
To be free for a moment
> Ali Varamini
24
I still like to commentate football, Interview with Jahangir Kowsari
> Chia Foadi
44
He never acquiescence to get marry
> Jasem Ghazbanpour
48
Football with the intellectual’s pipe and cane
> Ehsan Mohammadi
54
The way of king; Story of Ali Daei’s life
> Fateh Sahba
80
From the grass of backyard to champion’s league, Interview with Shahzad Mozaffar
> Maria Shahi
92
100 thousand male stadium
> Podium photography group
98
Perspolis is the master of Esteghlal, Esteghlal is the master of perspolis
> Amir Mohammad Soleymani
106
Country as the flesh of body
> Sama Babaei
110
Time and era of Ali Parvin
> Afshin Amirshahi
116
Representative of non-fans
> Ali Amir riahi
124
In praise of nostalgia
> Raheleh Amir Bahrami
128
There is no justice in football, Interview with Javad Alizadeh
> Hadi Heydari
142
On the substitute bench
> Baharak Mahmoudi
148
Right event in a right time and place
> Hossein Asaran
156
Why is our literature separated from football? Conversation between Hossein Ganji, Mohammad Tolouei and Mehdi Yazdani Khorram
164
For a fistfull of dollars
> Nader Davoudi
168
Relax, I’m here
> Banousheh Farhat
170
A cup full of thrill
> Farzaneh Ghobadi
174
In praise of the revolution
> Abdollah Yalchin
180
The S
> Peyman Hooshmandzadeh
184
You, healed by love…
> Banousheh Farhat
192
Separation and football
> Abolfazl Rajabi
196
I was number seven and i’m still alive
> Hossein Shekarbeigi
200
Birth of an ambitious narrator
> Mehdi Yazdani Khorram
206
Alas! From this Farhad killer, Interview with Adel Ferdosipour
> Maziyar Nazemi
210
Football is not just football
> Farzad Moghadam
216
Poses in a large scale
> Hojjat Askari
220
The negative film was more significant than us, Interview with Reza Mo’atarian
> Hossein Ganji
240
Football is life
> Hamid Moazeni
244
Magic Of football unde the grape tree
> Nahid Molavi
250
Free girls
> Fatemeh Samadi