Iran snooker passion grows as fans take cue from ‘Persian Prince’
The HinduA passion for snooker has swept Iran in recent years, a trend fans attribute largely to the country’s first internationally renowned star Hossein Vafaei, known as the “Persian Prince”. “In the past, Iran did not have much of a place in the Asian and world championships in billiards and snooker,” said referee Mohammad Afghil Morshedi, 34, of Iran’s Bowling, Billiard and Boules Federation. Vafaei, who hails from Abadan in the southwestern province of Khuzestan bordering Iraq, said Iran has “very little snooker history”, speaking last week with state news agency IRNA. “Reaching the position that Vafaei has attained is the ultimate goal of almost all Iranian snooker players,” said Shirin Zarrin, 38, an employee at the Iran billiards federation.
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