Az maast ke bar maast !!

[Doctor DOOM]

Many knew such a day would come to pass.
It was written all over the past 2 years.
Our defeat did not happen at the feet of the Mexicans and Portuguese players.
Our defeat was dealt by the hands of our own people, Iranians !

From those days when some people exaggerated and twisted simple victories over poor opponents into major feats of success.
Those days that numbers spoke the right language for some people, and quality never mattered.

Defeat came at the hands of those who resisted and labeled any kind of criticism.
When the values and standards were misplaced.
When the measuring sticks were skewed.

The days when the head of our federation, Dadkan, rode roughshod over anyone who, knowingly or unknowingly, well-meaning or other-wise, criticized the methods of Branko in relying on the wrong notions and seeking the wrong targets.

The days when mediocrity and stagnation was supported by the very people who were in charge of progress of football in our country.

Defeat came when we closed our eyes to many warning signs of the impending doom, and quite wrongly emphasized on irrelevant notions like hospitality and misplaced loyalties , words that are very much un-related to the issue at hand, and have no place in a world of professionalism!

We lost when we lost sight of the bigger picture and the big feast, and were forced to be content with bread crumbs, victims to either short-sightedness or incompetence of the people at power.

Bravo’s shot, or Deco’s unstoppable missile were … pun intended, mere final bullets in the series of self-flagellation and suicidal decisions.

Yes, we must retrace our failures to those days when alarm bells rang with Branko’s over-cautious and illogical approach to our games and preparations. To those days when we could have made a difference, could have steered away from such a disaster, but failed to do so.
When many pushed for change, and did remind us all of the age-old Iranian tradition that needs to be broken. The same old “Nooshdaroo pass az marg-e Sohrab …” phenomenon which strangles us and our culture in almost everything that we do.

Because we never learn from history, and forget many valuable lessons from past failures !

Failed?
I am not so sure, as many experts and professionals did speak of such an eventuality.

Maybe the word is obstinately refusing to heed the general wisdom and denial of reality by people like Dadkan.

I, personally hold Dadkan the most responsible party to this disaster.

[MrBrightside]

This is no way a disaster.

It would have been a disaster if we had lost these two games with a really old group of players !!!

That is the major difference between now and 98.

In 98 we lost two games to not the most fantastic of teams with a group of old first timers.

Importantly now a really young group who can, unlike the 98 players, USE THIS EXPERIENCE in atleast the next world cup.

You will see how important this world cup will be to the performance of our players, in the league and national team.

I only wish Mobali had gone through this experience too whihc would have made him too such a better player.

[faraz]

well, disaster is the right word for it, and should have been used right after the Mexico game.

Dadkan is very responsible and stubborn.
Branko is responsible.
Ali Karimi is highly responsible for his poor poor play.

We as fans are responsible and so is the media.

We all had a part to play in these losses.

This was a very bad showing in my view. Not so much the Portugal match, but letting Mexico score 3 goals was absolutely unnecessary, unlucky, and just bad.

DD jan, we lost what we had acheived in 4 years in a matter of seconds: Kaebi's pass back = mistake 1
Mirza's kick = mistake 2
Rezaei's miscontrol = mistake 3
Rezaei's failure to FOUL Zinha when he got the ball = mistake 4
Mirza's slip-up as he came out to challenge bravo = mistake 5

These were the only real mistakes that were made, notice, not by Nosrati, or not by Ali Daei.

What a shame

[mr.taheri]

DD, I dont want to eat eggs every day, I want some ghormehsabzi and lubiapolo....no more eggs with the IFF.

[Ali Chicago]

If this is not a disaster so what is a disaster then. Dude, look at the Fifa game report for iran Vs. Portugual we had 37% ball possesiion. Dude iran only had 19 minutes with the ball. Do you get it? Iran had no sustained attack on Portugals goals.

I bet you Mexico and Portugal won't get anywhere in this world cup. I bet you. Even Angola withstood Mexico's attack and they scored (chepandand) three goals against us.

An in regards to younger players, except Madanchi which one of those so called young players got some play time in this WC?

So please stop with this our young players got experience stuff. Man come on, until when we want to defend mediocrity?

Did you see Australia Vs. Brazil? Man I wish I was an Aussie!!!! I would have been proud of those boys. Or an American how they kicked Italy's ass with 9 players for more than 45 minutes.

I don't know what can wake up people, who think like you, and smell the roses.

[Doctor DOOM]

it is a disaster, since we dont know when we'll have such a collection of talent, with this amount of experience, this kind of easy grouping and opportunity !!

hell, we dont know when we'll get to qualify for the WC next time.

we had the chance to do something great, especially against mexico and we lost this opportunity becoz of our mismanagement and mishandling of the team by IFF, dadkan and branko.

for me, this loss of golden opportunity IS a disaster.

[Hajagha]

This was no way near a disaster, we were supposed to lose both games by any odds. Look at the other people prediction. Disaster happens when we lose to country like Maldives.

I don't agree with the post as a whole, we progressed from 2001 to now, I know it would be better to change our coach when he had nothing to offer, but don't forget we came from "Shahrokhi" to Branko. It was an improvement. We talk about a country that half of the population were not allowed to see players hairy knees from 100+ meters as the rest of the legs are covered. We talk about a country that the coach is blamed to drink alcohol rather than his tactic.

We improved by any means, even such a lost was improvement, we don't go back to Sharokhies era by no means, we got rid off "Parvin" ali asghari tactics. Now, Branko is too small for us, but don't forget 2002 when we wished for him. We learned not any blue eyes does the same thing, we learned how to criticize Ary Haan or Denzili, we got a measurement how to evaluate the next coach.

We look forward. It's a good sign.

[St_Mark]

..., , but don't forget we came from "Shahrokhi" to Branko. It was an improvement. ..... It's a good sign.

Dear:
Last time I checked Mr. Shahrokhi were sitting quietly next to Branko.
If others {opponent } improved {move forward } with much faster speed than us , although we have made changes , can we conclude we have made progress? It depend what progress mean to us.
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[yashar_fasihnia]

the main reason we lost this worldcup is fitness & stamina.
thats all. (ofcourse the disunity among the camp is another reason but wat i mean is this was our biggest weakness comapred to other teams)

and like hashemian rightly said (thanx god some professional player supports me on this and says its not branko's fault cos he had only 3 weeks), branko wasnt really responsible for our fitness!

we had the talent, we had the heart, we had the experience, we had the youth, but we didnt have the fitness level! and that ALI CHICAGO JAN, is the only reason why we had 37% possession. because we couldnt create possession for ourselves, because we didnt have the energy to have group attacks , so our players lost the ball everytime we went upfront, we couldnt create spaces for ourselves to that our teammates would pass us the ball!

we never went with a defensive approach, but we couldnt attack much because of STAMINA & FITNESS!

the only reason australia could match up brazil, korea could match up france was because they ran, ran & ran! they had the stamina to tackle every french player who had the ball, they had the stamina to move forward and create offense in groups, and they had the stamina to run back and defend during counters and turn overs! they had the stamina to create spaces for each other and pass the ball to each other, they had the stamina to press the opponent!

it was all stamina and fitness which seperated most of the worldcup teams from the iranian team! Remember ali_chicago jan, u said "its not fitness, out players are fitter than mexico and even most other teams"? but i replied to u that no, "iranian is one of the weakest teams in terms of physical fitness and stamina" and then we had that argument over saudia arabia and other african teams having better fitness and body strength?

our weak point was nothing but stamina & fitness. whether branko wasnt the best coach, daei wasnt the fastest player, mirzapour wasnt the smartest goalkeeper, plays a minor role compared to our fitness & stamina level of our players! if we had the fitness and stamina of the aussies or the koreans, for sure we would have played a much better game, we would have more possession and more chances against portugal & mexico even with branko,daei,mirzapour & nosrati!

[Hajagha]

Dear:
Last time I checked Mr. Shahrokhi were sitting quietly next to Branko.....

At least he sat besides and not instead. You just proved my point too.

I see your point, we haven't improved fast enough. But as I said in my post and you proved it again with your point, in which ground we want to improve fast? How fast is fast enough?

Look, even this second rate coach didn't bring his family to Iran after 5 years, never learned Persian and I am sure never opened his second suitcase to settle down even for a month. Imagine if we had a first class coach.

What I try to say, it's too hard to improve situations in Iran. being fast enough is not a "realistic challenge".

[zzgloo]

These are the reasons.....in my opinion...

1- Guatemoc blanco, the man of the year for mexico was not even invited to thier team......
2-The mexican league had 60 games during a year...and thier national team more than 20 friendlies.
3-Our league is a much weaker league than even angola's.
4- No subs for golie,defense,left back,forwards......
5-our players, controled the ball only on 20% of times, that is we gave away the possetion, unforced more than 80% of the time....that is in my opinion the lowest in the WC.....simply,our players did not knew what to do with the ball.
6-Consiquently, both mexican players and portuguese players did not respect our players when we had the possetion, and attcked our players even in our part of the field when we had possetion.
7-Our coach did what he could....we got what we paid for.
8-The intelegence of our players, such as mirzapour, is questionable, and most of our players made bad judgments most of the time.
9-We did not foul enough,nor we resieved yellow cards as much as other teams....that translates to our players lack of intencity.
10-contrary to most's beliefe, our midfield was our weak point....the center did not belong to us, nor did we feed the offense ( with the exception of kia ).
11-Branko never devised a plan comfortable with the players....our players never looked insink with what they were doing.

[Doctor DOOM]

zz jan , thanks for the break down.

good points were brought up in this break down.
and taking each one for what it means :

1- "names" shd not matter in selection, and the "form" of the player is important.

2- the more the team plays internationally, the more they get experienced and less they get scared of opponents, some bigger than them

3- totally wrong. angola's league cannot be compared with ours.

4- when we could have played many of the alternatives in many of those inconsequential games like laos, guam, panama , lybia, ... , we didnt. hence these subs , according to zz jan, are un-reliable.
( although I have a different view on subs )

5- ".......our players did not knew what to do with the ball."
hmmm..... two words : 5 years.
you read the rest for yourself.

6- agreed

7- agreed.
it is us and IFF to be blamed for seating an incompetent and inferior mind as the coach, who was clear-as-day incapable of taking care of the job with his limited intelligence.
he didnt have much to offer, and whatever he had, he offered it 3-4 years ago.


8- count it on lack of experience and int'l exposure

9- questionable.

10- hmm... lets see...... "who" decides to play which players where ?

11- duh !


bottomline we see many mistakes and wrongs on the part of the coach.
most of which I base it on his lack of experience, constrained intellect, incapability and spineless nature ... and some on his irrational laj baazi and obstinacy to accept the truth, and his penchant for denial of facts.


but the greatest blame falls on the shoulders of us, Iranians, who witnessed all these short comings and still didnt do anything to prevent this disaster.

mainly the IFF,, who are in charge of such matters, and instead of their laj baazi and labeling, they shd have kept the best interests of the COUNTRY in mnd, not x or y individuals !

[Dr.shark]

If this is not a disaster so what is a disaster then. Dude, look at the Fifa game report for iran Vs. Portugual we had 37% ball possesiion. Dude iran only had 19 minutes with the ball. Do you get it? Iran had no sustained attack on Portugals goals.

I bet you Mexico and Portugal won't get anywhere in this world cup. I bet you. Even Angola withstood Mexico's attack and they scored (chepandand) three goals against us.

An in regards to younger players, except Madanchi which one of those so called young players got some play time in this WC?

So please stop with this our young players got experience stuff. Man come on, until when we want to defend mediocrity?

Did you see Australia Vs. Brazil? Man I wish I was an Aussie!!!! I would have been proud of those boys. Or an American how they kicked Italy's ass with 9 players for more than 45 minutes.

I don't know what can wake up people, who think like you, and smell the roses.
very well put I agree with you and thank you for telling the trueth.:bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow:

[Dr.shark]

This was no way near a disaster, we were supposed to lose both games by any odds. Look at the other people prediction. Disaster happens when we lose to country like Maldives.

I don't agree with the post as a whole, we progressed from 2001 to now, I know it would be better to change our coach when he had nothing to offer, but don't forget we came from "Shahrokhi" to Branko. It was an improvement. We talk about a country that half of the population were not allowed to see players hairy knees from 100+ meters as the rest of the legs are covered. We talk about a country that the coach is blamed to drink alcohol rather than his tactic.

We improved by any means, even such a lost was improvement, we don't go back to Sharokhies era by no means, we got rid off "Parvin" ali asghari tactics. Now, Branko is too small for us, but don't forget 2002 when we wished for him. We learned not any blue eyes does the same thing, we learned how to criticize Ary Haan or Denzili, we got a measurement how to evaluate the next coach.

We look forward. It's a good sign.
t&t was to lose to sweeden but did they??
do they even have players as good as sweeden???
what about how they played against england????
we did not even do that.
what about U.S and Italy???
we did not even stand up to mexico and portugal.
angola stood up to mixeco is angola better then us???
when they win against us in their next mach are you going to come out and say they were better then us???
man we lost because of fuc*ing branko and dadkan this is a disaster when we had a better team then them. mexico did not have the amount of stars on their team that we had on our team and yes those that say we were weaker they said that because they also did not want us to be their. this what they say to get in our head. we can say just because they are mexico and they won 3-1 it is ok. No if they win 1-0 fine we can say we played well and they just happend to be better. but when we lose 3-1 and then 2-0 we can't say we we are getting better were moving up
and what a stupid mola says can not be sed to put us down because at the same time we hav been ptting stars into europe and does stars have been doing good for them self.

[zzgloo]

zz jan , thanks for the break down.

good points were brought up in this break down.
and taking each one for what it means :

1- "names" shd not matter in selection, and the "form" of the player is important.

2- the more the team plays internationally, the more they get experienced and less they get scared of opponents, some bigger than them

3- totally wrong. angola's league cannot be compared with ours.

4- when we could have played many of the alternatives in many of those inconsequential games like laos, guam, panama , lybia, ... , we didnt. hence these subs , according to zz jan, are un-reliable.
( although I have a different view on subs )

5- ".......our players did not knew what to do with the ball."
hmmm..... two words : 5 years.
you read the rest for yourself.

6- agreed

7- agreed.
it is us and IFF to be blamed for seating an incompetent and inferior mind as the coach, who was clear-as-day incapable of taking care of the job with his limited intelligence.
he didnt have much to offer, and whatever he had, he offered it 3-4 years ago.


8- count it on lack of experience and int'l exposure

9- questionable.

10- hmm... lets see...... "who" decides to play which players where ?

11- duh !


bottomline we see many mistakes and wrongs on the part of the coach.
most of which I base it on his lack of experience, constrained intellect, incapability and spineless nature ... and some on his irrational laj baazi and obstinacy to accept the truth, and his penchant for denial of facts.


but the greatest blame falls on the shoulders of us, Iranians, who witnessed all these short comings and still didnt do anything to prevent this disaster.

mainly the IFF,, who are in charge of such matters, and instead of their laj baazi and labeling, they shd have kept the best interests of the COUNTRY in mnd, not x or y individuals !
DD jan....you and I are saying the same things,with different language.....
Let me explain why we did not score against mexico during the first half ,with a joke,:) ....
A teacher asks a student if he can say the " jadvale zarb "....and the student goes......" do dota charta,do seta shita,do charta hasta " and he did it with a rythem and sounded like a song.......
then the teacher asks the next student the same question.....and the secound student who was not a good student said.....
" daram dam dam dam,,daram dam dam dam, daram dam dam dam..."with a same rythem as the first student.....
As he only knew the rythem,and not the meaning.....
And thats why we did not score......:)

[Doctor DOOM]

eh?

isnt the student supposed to know , especially since the teahcer has worked with him for 5 years ?

and if the student is so dumb , the the teacher, goh khordeh ke avordeh sar-e emtahan/takhteh !
he shd have brought another student who COULD do the multiplications.

then the teacher ghalat kardeh ke beekhodi az in student defa' mikoneh.

then the teacher be goor-e pedaresh khandideh ... when failure and loss comes, blames the students only, and tries to keep himself bereft of any responsibility !!

THIS, my dear zz , is the characteristic of a WIMP.

when failure comes, he points the finger at the players !!

THIS is the person you, now, support !
this wimp, who is scared of facing responsibility !

[zzgloo]

eh?

isnt the student supposed to know , especially since the teahcer has worked with him for 5 years ?

and if the student is so dumb , the the teacher, goh khordeh ke avordeh sar-e emtahan/takhteh !
he shd have brought another student who COULD do the multiplications.

then the teacher ghalat kardeh ke beekhodi az in student defa' mikoneh.

then the teacher be goor-e pedaresh khandideh ... when failure and loss comes, blames the students only, and tries to keep himself bereft of any responsibility !!

THIS, my dear zz , is the characteristic of a WIMP.

when failure comes, he points the finger at the players !!

THIS is the person you, now, support !
this wimp, who is scared of facing responsibility !
DD jan.......Deep in mind,I must admit,I believe there is something wrong with our players,.......
something unfortuantly wrong....
when I see and compaire our players with forign players, even with not so strong a countries...i see.........
Our players can not shoot stright.
Our players can not shoot from far.
our players can not drible with self steem.
our players can not play one touch football.
our players are not smart enough to out smart opponants.
our players do not have killer instincts.
our players at the last secound of importance shoot in the air.
our players do not fight and do not want to get dirty.
our players psycologicaly weak.
our players do not understand expediting,and fast urgent reaction.
our players delay in makeing dicisions.
our players do not know how to play fancy.
our players do not have consistancy of efforts,and are moody.
our players get angree and do not know how to not get yellow cards.
our players do not know how to use thier body to keep the opponants away.
our players do not know how to use off-side to thier advantage in the offense.
our players do not play without a ball well.
our players do not know how to enjoy when playing.and do not have fun.
our players do not know how to be arrogant,as some times they need to be.
.....etc,etc,etc.....................
it is not just the coach....
DD jan, I am not stupid...i know,Branko is a low class coach,and under qualified.....but, our players are just far behind in proffesionalism..work ethics,consistancy,and creative..............
frankly, other than mahdavikia,and rahman rezaie,and kabei....the others are not that much of a big deal.............
And these were my true feelings.

[smanhoobi]

DD jan.......Deep in mind,I must admit,I believe there is something wrong with our players,.......
something unfortuantly wrong....
when I see and compaire our players with forign players, even with not so strong a countries...i see.........
Our players can not shoot stright.
Our players can not shoot from far.
our players can not drible with self steem.
our players can not play one touch football.
our players are not smart enough to out smart opponants.
our players do not have killer instincts.
our players at the last secound of importance shoot in the air.
our players do not fight and do not want to get dirty.
our players psycologicaly weak.
our players do not understand expediting,and fast urgent reaction.
our players delay in makeing dicisions.
our players do not know how to play fancy.
our players do not have consistancy of efforts,and are moody.
our players get angree and do not know how to not get yellow cards.
our players do not know how to use thier body to keep the opponants away.
our players do not know how to use off-side to thier advantage in the offense.
our players do not play without a ball well.
our players do not know how to enjoy when playing.and do not have fun.
our players do not know how to be arrogant,as some times they need to be.
.....etc,etc,etc.....................
it is not just the coach....
DD jan, I am not stupid...i know,Branko is a low class coach,and under qualified.....but, our players are just far behind in proffesionalism..work ethics,consistancy,and creative..............
frankly, other than mahdavikia,and rahman rezaie,and kabei....the others are not that much of a big deal.............
And these were my true feelings.

Good job.

In the football forum, I tried to lay down many factors. One is definitely Branko. But when you look at what he has got, then you will realize that thats the ceiling of achievement.

Some of you are in total denial. What you are doing is using a psychological "defense" mechanism to cover up shortcommings by blaming it on certain souls.

Lets just wake up. Lets not deny it.

I swear to god, we will NOT be successful even without Branko and Ali Daei. we LACK basics. We lack attitude. Our players are culturally and financially poor (Some may not be financially poor, but that is only a small percentage of the whole team).Under such circumstances, success only comes with a miracle. The chance is nothing more than a miracle.

God damn it. We are not as good as S.Korea and Japan. Its not even confined to them either. The picture is even more worry some.

If we keep denying this and we keep blaming insignificants, we gonna loose again and again.

If you guys keep destroying even positives of the whole, if you guys keep destroying the values of achievements, We WILL NOT GONNA PRODUCE anything for the future. We already did this for the last few months and what has happened in the camp is the start of a disaster for us.

[yashar_fasihnia]

DD jan.......Deep in mind,I must admit,I believe there is something wrong with our players,.......
something unfortuantly wrong....
when I see and compaire our players with forign players, even with not so strong a countries...i see.........
Our players can not shoot stright.
Our players can not shoot from far.
our players can not drible with self steem.
our players can not play one touch football.
our players are not smart enough to out smart opponants.
our players do not have killer instincts.
our players at the last secound of importance shoot in the air.
our players do not fight and do not want to get dirty.
our players psycologicaly weak.
our players do not understand expediting,and fast urgent reaction.
our players delay in makeing dicisions.
our players do not know how to play fancy.
our players do not have consistancy of efforts,and are moody.
our players get angree and do not know how to not get yellow cards.
our players do not know how to use thier body to keep the opponants away.
our players do not know how to use off-side to thier advantage in the offense.
our players do not play without a ball well.
our players do not know how to enjoy when playing.and do not have fun.
our players do not know how to be arrogant,as some times they need to be.
.....etc,etc,etc.....................
it is not just the coach....
DD jan, I am not stupid...i know,Branko is a low class coach,and under qualified.....but, our players are just far behind in proffesionalism..work ethics,consistancy,and creative..............
frankly, other than mahdavikia,and rahman rezaie,and kabei....the others are not that much of a big deal.............
And these were my true feelings.

add to that:
our players are not unified
our players are not physically fit for the worldcup
our players are not professional enough to overcome their emotions
our players are all young and not very experienced for the worldcup stage
our players self esteem are destroyed by our media for the simplest of reasons
our players grew up with football as a hobby, not as a modern science
our players dont have experience against good teams and in big tournaments
our players dont have the best available facilities, YES EVEN COACH! (they only have the best they are provided with)

yet branko should be blamed, he is the "wimp"
if it was macala (the same guy who was standing at the sidelines of the pas-al ain game in tehran as clueless as possible leaning on the bench with no hope until nakisa made those stupid mistakes), we would have somehow beaten or drawn mexico and/or portugal and advanced to the second round, and who knows, maybe beat argentina/holland! :rolleyes:

and u know wat zzjan, this is only taking a rough look at the football world of iran, imagine wat happens if we take into consideration the whole picture which involves our economy, political situation, culture, etc, ALL OF WHICH PLAYS AN UNDENIABLE MAJOR ROLE ON OUR FOOTBALL!

but then again, who am i to say all this??im a just branko supporter in denial who put up branko's avatar once and my agenda is not TM but my father Banko who i try to cover up with all kinda excuses like the sky is pink and the grass in blue and who closed the doors on world class coaches like troussier and hitzfeld but welcomed my dad branko with open arms at the cost of my country's football team in the worldcup!
wat can i say? except..... "i have low standards in life" :o

[Doctor DOOM]

It’s just sad !

How we try to twist all reality , even at the cost of belittling our players, just to save the worthless arse of a moron who ruined our chances !!

(shows we still have the wrong priorities and it’s just disheartening ! )

we cant shoot straight, or from far or dribble, or …. ?
sorry, I HAVE TO ask ; have you even watched Iranian football , zz jan?

you run down a list that if we are realistic, we’d see many teams suffer from it.
For example even the best teams suffer from some.
Even the best of teams have problems with anger, air supremacy, consistency, …. .
But you wont count them, will you?

Secondly, this coach knew all our shortcomings 5 years back.
Shd have seen it, and if he hasn’t, then even more shame on him for being stupid and blind.
What did he do to rectify this?

Isn’t this the coach’s responsibility to make sure ( and advise ) they get proper training in all these factors, get help psychologically, build bodies, …. .

Na agha , you are unnecessarily belittling our players … and I don’t understand why !



you run down our players as if they are from Bangladesh !
did you even stop to think before you belittled and slighted our players ?

were you comparing them to ronaldinho and zidane when you wrote this ?
have you EVER watched teams like nigeria, turkey, japan, korea, senegl, Cameroon, …. ?
EVER ?
Hell, I see even the arabs improve faster than us.
And it hurts.
Coz I know their ppl demand and we ?
We sit on our arses and agree with any crap !
And then blame gov’t, mullahs, usa, uk, … this that !!
we always have excuses and alibis !!!!!
always !


Yes, we do have lacks and shortcomings in infrastructure, financial aspects, …. .
But here is where ppl are divided:
One accepts this fate and uses it as an alibi for all failures.
( something we, Iranians are very good in: blame zaman o zamin for our inaction and mistakes ! hamash taghsir-e in engilisihast, oon amrikaii-hast, mullahsat, ..inhast, oonhast !
never “ourselves” ... coz some of us , even before the evnt happens, have OUR EXUSES READY AND PREPARED !!!
!! )

the other tries to do its best , even if little and small in nature, to take things further and improve.
Basically , be PRO-ACTIVE .


So basically we have our excuses for every failure !
We wont even attempt minor corrections, since we have major problems !

This argument reflect the horrible state Iran is in right now !!
X say, I wont follow traffic laws, since we don’t have proper roads.
Y says I don’t care if I take bribes and steal , since our Gov’t is not good.
Z says I don’t care if I construct proper buildings that collapse in a year, since nothing in Iran works well anyway !
And so on.

And you know what?
These X’s, Y’s and Z’s are the ones for not only keeping this sad state in tact, but making it even worse.

“we don’t have 10 top stadia, so it’s ok if we lose tragically at the WC !!”

always throwing the ball in another’s court.
No sense of self-respect.
No sense of responsibility.
Nothing !
but we're experts in cooking up excuses !!!


No wonder none of our short term plans ( if at all they are discussed ) bear fruit, since we all have the right EXCUSE for not doing our jobs: “nothing else is in proper place. So why do you expect anything this small?” !!!!!!!!!





I am so furious that I refuse to answer this, lest I may say something that we all regret later.

But all I can say is this:
Lets not be farangi-parast.
And think we are all inferior !
This inferiority complex has held us and many other nations at bay, and it is just too harmful.

This kind of attitude is what holds ppl from progress and betterment.

Plz have some self-esteem.
Lets have some self-respect.
Lets have some hunger and desire, and look for ways to better ourselves, and not be content with just any moronic sh*t we’re dealt with.

The maximum we do/say is: we are not as good as X or Y !!
Big deal.
The main thing that separates a great ppl from losers is : what are you going to do about it?
Sit and accept this as your fate and never improve? ( as we have done )
Or at least DO something about it and demand betterment?

Aaahh .. forget it.
I have said it many times, and I still see ppl defend stagnation and laziness.
I still see ppl support non-action and reactionary acts !

You have your conscience to answer to.
I have mine.
I just feel sad for IRAN and its great history as it is very different from what we are now !

[Amirza]

Excellent post DD,
We lost but did we as Fans learn anything ??? never mind the problems we have with those who rulr the country and IFF - did we the fans learn anything ?

Do we now understand that our team does not need a Gardan Koloft so called leader on the field ?? do we know now that elements like "Rouhieh", "Crowd", "Leadership abilities" are no longer serious factors in PROFESSIONAL football ???

Do we now know what Tactics and plays are ? do we now think of what our system should be before we start thinking about who should play ?

[zzgloo]

We are all sad at these mooments, and understandbly so .....
Our performance was not that desastrouse either.....
No,DD jan, we do not have inferiorety complex...as a matter of fact, we Iranians in back of our mind think we are the best !
You asked me if I had seen the games....and I ask you, if you have ?
In all the games from all participant countries in this world cup...which team gave away thier possesion to thier opponants as often as Iran did ?
Which team had the most unforced errors ?
which team was internaly more of a mess ?
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I love Iran,and no matter what I shall follow its proogress untill I die.....but, I try to be objective and see where exactly is the problem.....
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If I had to choose only one factor for our weak performance .......
It would be our low class of league of football, as competition and proffesionalism ,and skill demands are under parr.
DD jan, I say it again, what asghar sharafi said, which " bayad tala gereft "....he said.....Our football is way behind from our fans !!!

[smanhoobi]

we Iranians in back of our mind think we are the best !


And you know what aziz jaan. For quite some time now and in order not to loose face, we attributed and defined it as "Egoistic Behaviour" or "Arrogant Behaviour".

I think , its time to accept that it is more than that.