GOAL -
Bolton Wanderers’ new star Andranik Teymourian is settling in nicely in
England. The Armenian-born Iranian midfielder was in the headlines after his
two goals against Wigan last week gave the Trotters a 3-1 win.
"To be the only Iranian playing in England makes me feel very proud," the 24
year-old told The Guardian.
"I'm hoping I can be a good advert for English football and particularly for
Bolton Wanderers. My photograph has been in all the Iranian newspapers and
the goals are being replayed all the time. Not many people in Iran knew much
of Bolton but I hope there will be people in Tehran wearing Bolton shirts
the next time I go home."
"The culture is not massively different for me in England because what I was
doing in Iran I now do here," Teymourian says.
In an international league, Bolton is one of the most cosmopolitan clubs
with a number of nationalities.
"The only problem is the language barrier and for the first five or six
months that was really hard. It's getting easier now, though, and I've
picked up a lot of the football terms.”
"The most important thing for me was to understand my manager and, after
that, to learn the other things. Sometimes people here speak really fast and
because of their strong accents I don't understand much. But I understand
part of what Sam Allardyce is saying now and we get along really well."
The highly-rated former Abu Moslem star rejected offers from the Middle-East
and Germany for the Premier League to head to the north-west.
“I wanted to play in England because the way the teams play football here
you will not see anywhere else in the world. All the top clubs - Manchester
United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool - are always on television back in
Iran and I love their style of play.
