Majid Varess started his career in 1974 on Iran’s national television and mostly reported on wrestling and football matches.
Varess was one of the main reporters of the 1974 Asian Games in Tehran. After the revolution, he also reported other important events such as the 1980 Asian Nations Cup football games, the 1981 Skopje World Wrestling Championship, the 1982 Spain Football World Cup and the 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi. The last international event he reported before moving to Australia was the 1984 Asian Cup in Singapore. After emigrating, in his last collaboration with Radio Broadcasting, he did a live radio report of the Australia-Iran match and some of the Iranian athletes’ matches in the Sydney Olympics.
After the revolution, on the initiative of Majid Warsis, the sports program Varzesh & Mardom was established on Channel One. This program continued until 1984 with the performance of Majid Varess, but after that, due to Varess’s critical view of sports management, he was banned from performing this program and was replaced by Bahram Shafi. According to the opinion of many sports enthusiasts at that time, the best era of the sports program and the people was in the years of the execution of Varess .
After being removed from the Varzesh & Mardom program, Varess continued his reporting activities and was still active; But in 1985, in one of the matches of Tehran clubs, when in the 1960s (sunny), a ball was shot in the middle of the audience and the spectators did not return the ball to the field. Majid Varess said while reporting: “Yes, now they are playing the ball,” this sentence was enough in the conditions of Iran that day to force him to withdraw from reporting in Iran forever.
After immigrating to Australia, Majid Varess continued his studies in filmmaking. He returned to Iran in the midst of the 1998 World Cup qualifiers and made a documentary called “The Reporter” that focused on the Iranian national team’s promotion to the World Cup and his presence in this event. In this documentary, Varess explained their problems through conversations with coaches and players of the national team. In 2002, this film was able to receive the prize of the sports film festival in Italy
During the 2006 World Cup in Germany and the presence of the Iranian team in these competitions, Majid Varess made a film called “We are all Iranians”, the main purpose of which was to address the banning of Iranian football-loving women from attending stadiums.
Majid Varess resumed his media activity abroad this time from June 2009 and aired a program called Reporter on Pars TV. In this program, Varess deals with Iranian sports events from a socio-political point of view and has a critical look at the performance of radio announcers who, in his opinion, are masters of flattering and praising power and exaggerating superficial and unimportant issues and indifference to issues. And the problems are important. Reflecting women’s sports news and supporting the presence of Iranian women in stadiums are other highlights of reporter Majid Varess’ program.
Now this program under the title “90 minutes” is published weekly on his personal YouTube channel.
Majid Varess started his career in 1974 on Iran’s national television and mostly reported on wrestling and football matches.
Varess was one of the main reporters of the 1974 Asian Games in Tehran. After the revolution, he also reported other important events such as the 1980 Asian Nations Cup football games, the 1981 Skopje World Wrestling Championship, the 1982 Spain Football World Cup and the 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi. The last international event he reported before moving to Australia was the 1984 Asian Cup in Singapore. After emigrating, in his last collaboration with Radio Broadcasting, he did a live radio report of the Australia-Iran match and some of the Iranian athletes’ matches in the Sydney Olympics.
After the revolution, on the initiative of Majid Warsis, the sports program Varzesh & Mardom was established on Channel One. This program continued until 1984 with the performance of Majid Varess, but after that, due to Varess’s critical view of sports management, he was banned from performing this program and was replaced by Bahram Shafi. According to the opinion of many sports enthusiasts at that time, the best era of the sports program and the people was in the years of the execution of Varess .
After being removed from the Varzesh & Mardom program, Varess continued his reporting activities and was still active; But in 1985, in one of the matches of Tehran clubs, when in the 1960s (sunny), a ball was shot in the middle of the audience and the spectators did not return the ball to the field. Majid Varess said while reporting: “Yes, now they are playing the ball,” this sentence was enough in the conditions of Iran that day to force him to withdraw from reporting in Iran forever.
After immigrating to Australia, Majid Varess continued his studies in filmmaking. He returned to Iran in the midst of the 1998 World Cup qualifiers and made a documentary called “The Reporter” that focused on the Iranian national team’s promotion to the World Cup and his presence in this event. In this documentary, Varess explained their problems through conversations with coaches and players of the national team. In 2002, this film was able to receive the prize of the sports film festival in Italy
During the 2006 World Cup in Germany and the presence of the Iranian team in these competitions, Majid Varess made a film called “We are all Iranians”, the main purpose of which was to address the banning of Iranian football-loving women from attending stadiums.
Majid Varess resumed his media activity abroad this time from June 2009 and aired a program called Reporter on Pars TV. In this program, Varess deals with Iranian sports events from a socio-political point of view and has a critical look at the performance of radio announcers who, in his opinion, are masters of flattering and praising power and exaggerating superficial and unimportant issues and indifference to issues. And the problems are important. Reflecting women’s sports news and supporting the presence of Iranian women in stadiums are other highlights of reporter Majid Varess’ program.
Now this program under the title “90 minutes” is published weekly on his personal YouTube channel.