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    #2
    Anyone know this guy personally? Or very familiar with him? How irooni is he? Does he follow TM and know our players?
    Team Meli Iran
    Perspolis FC
    Malavan Bandar Anzali


    "I will never be able to say good bye to Iran. I have a feeling of belonging to this country and to the people." - Carlos Queiroz

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      #3
      This is the article

      Barnsley Football Club can officially announce Poya Asbaghi as our new Head Coach.

      The 36-year-old has put pen to paper at Oakwell following his arrival from the Swedish national set-up, where he was U21 head coach.

      Asbaghi began his coaching career as an assistant at Swedish third tier outfit Dalkurd FF, before taking over the helm two years later.

      After a successful spell with the Uppsala-based club, the Iranian-born coach was appointed by Gefle IF in 2017 before a two-year stint with Swedish giants IFK Göteborg between 2018 and 2020.

      He led Göteborg to Svenska Cupen glory in 2020 with a 2-1 victory over fierce rivals Malmö FF before leaving his position at IFK in September that year.

      Asbaghi won six of his 10 games in charge of Sweden U21s and arrives in South Yorkshire having left the young Swedes top of UEFA U21 European Championship Qualifying Group F after seven fixtures.

      He will be accompanied by Ferran Sibila, who was his assistant at Göteborg. The 33-year-old Spaniard has previously coached at Swedish outfit GIF Sundsvall.

      Khaled El-Ahmad, Barnsley FC Chief Executive Officer, said: “We welcome Poya and Ferran to the Club. Both are good people, talented coaches with a clear leadership and tactical philosophy.

      “Poya was on the radar back in 2019 and as we went through our recruitment process it became clear to all parties that Poya and Ferran can take Barnsley FC forward.

      We would like to thank Jo Laumann and the first team coaching staff for their continued hard work and professionalism over the past few weeks during what has been a transitional period for the Club.”

      Laumann will oversee Saturday’s Sky Bet Championship fixture against Fulham, with Asbaghi and new assistant coach, Sibila, expected to take first team training on Monday 22 November.



      Some good experience there with IFK and the Sweden u21 team.

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        #4
        great, now get some iroonis to the club please.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Ghermez Agha View Post
          Anyone know this guy personally? Or very familiar with him? How irooni is he? Does he follow TM and know our players?
          https://www.barnsleyfc.co.uk/news/20...-to-know-poya/

          GET TO KNOW | POYA ASBAGHI

          Poya Asbaghi officially joined the Club on Wednesday, but what do you know about our new Head Coach?

          Born in Karaj – just outside of the Iranian capital, Tehran – in July 1985, he was only one-year-old when his family fled the country because of political persecution.

          Since then, Asbaghi has spent his life in Sweden and began his coaching journey as assistant at Dalkurd FF, a club based in Uppsala, where he grew up with his family.

          Formed in 2004, Dalkurd was founded by members of the Kurdish diaspora, who had fled their respective homelands.

          In March 2015, the club were due to fly back to Sweden from Barcelona via Düsseldorf, but changed their plans at the last minute as the layover would have been too long. After taking three separate planes and travelling via Munich and Zurich, the team heard the horrifying news that their originally scheduled flight, Germanwings Flight 4U 9525, had crashed into the French Alps, tragically claiming the lives of everyone on board.

          During his time with Dalkurd, Asbaghi helped the club win promotion to the second tier of Swedish football for the first time in their history.

          He departed Dalkurd midway through the 2017 campaign to take over fellow Superettan outfit Gefle IF, where he successfully steered them to safety by winning 10 of his 21 matches and picking up 34 of their 36 points.

          Asbaghi’s achievements in the lower leagues hadn’t gone unnoticed and eventually top flight side and two-time UEFA Cup winners IFK Göteborg came calling in January 2018 ahead of the Allsvenskan season.

          An 11th place finish would follow in his first year at the helm in Gothenburg, before guiding the club to seventh spot 12 months later.

          However, his biggest achievement during his time with IFK was the Svenska Cup triumph in 2020 as his team overcame fierce rivals Malmö FF 2-1 to win that competition for the eighth time.

          Upon departing Göteborg, he took over as Sweden U21 coach in November 2020 and won six of his 10 games in charge – including four during their UEFA European U21 qualifying campaign – and leaves with the young Swedes top of Group F.

          Asbaghi now starts the next step of his exciting coaching career at Barnsley Football Club and will take his first training session on Monday 22 November.

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            #6
            Gucci incoming.

            Serious talk , I found out today that Barnsley is part owned by Mr Moneyball himself Billy Beane.

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              #7
              Originally posted by Medzdidz View Post
              Gucci incoming.

              Serious talk , I found out today that Barnsley is part owned by Mr Moneyball himself Billy Beane.






              Barnsley are LEGIT in terms of moneyball. I rate them even higher than Brentford in that aspect. I posted these videos in the other thread in regards to Barnsley's moneyball approach.

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                #8
                Adel did a short interview with him during the 2018 WC
                https://tamasha.com/v/yq8DB

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                  #9
                  He seems to be considered an up and coming management prospect. If he does well here it will catch the interest of big championship clubs and maybe lower table PL, Bundesliga, etc teams

                  I wouldn't get too excited about the prospect of Iranian players going there. Iran has no young players that would be eligible to play in the UK due to Brexit. Swedish Iranians yes but players like Allahyar, Ghaedi, etc do not have enough points to get a visa.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Malkay View Post
                    He seems to be considered an up and coming management prospect. If he does well here it will catch the interest of big championship clubs and maybe lower table PL, Bundesliga, etc teams

                    I wouldn't get too excited about the prospect of Iranian players going there. Iran has no young players that would be eligible to play in the UK due to Brexit. Swedish Iranians yes but players like Allahyar, Ghaedi, etc do not have enough points to get a visa.
                    I am sure Ghaedi has enough (fidelity) point with all the shopping of British brands in Dubai mall

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                      #11
                      Ghaedi is prohibited from English football as sexual harrasement at the workplace is illegal under the Equality Act 2010.

                      ...his family fled the country because of political persecution.
                      *Thread moved to international football forum.*

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                        #12
                        Barnsley have a game tomorrow against 2nd place Fulham, but Poya doesn't start until Monday.

                        See relevant Athletic article: https://theathletic.com/news/barnsle.../WAcihcq4ZswP/

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Taz View Post
                          Ghaedi is prohibited from English football as sexual harrasement at the workplace is illegal under the Equality Act 2010.



                          *Thread moved to international football forum.*
                          Everyone in Sweden says that yet half of them travel freely to and from Iran.

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by 04041374 View Post
                            Adel did a short interview with him during the 2018 WC
                            https://tamasha.com/v/yq8DB
                            well he seems pretty damn iranian, speaks persian decently enough, and was comfortable enough to appear on IRIB.
                            Think we are set for post 2022

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                              #15
                              Poya Asbaghi Tactics

                              Asbaghi, Tactics & Wombles

                              On the 17th of November 2021, the Reds announced the appointment of Swedish-Iranian head coach Poya Asbaghi as the club’s new gaffer. With Spaniard Ferran Sibila, (who we’ll get onto later), as his assistant.

                              With an appointment that certainly seemed more spreadsheet focussed from the club than his predecessor Markus Schopp (the less said about him the better), a lot of the discourse around Grove Street quickly shifted to; ‘How is this guy going to set us up to play?’.

                              Well, I’m going to try and explain just that. But firstly, I’m sure I echo the thoughts of many fans in welcoming Poya and his team to ‘Tarn’, I wish them all the best in hopefully bringing back the good times to Oakwell.

                              Tactics


                              The first thing that has to be acknowledged about Asbaghi’s ‘typical’ tactics is that whilst the core principles of his game tend to remain relatively consistent, he likes to shift between a few different formations.

                              His three most favoured set-ups in Sverige were; 3-4-3, 4-2-3-1 and 4-1-3-2. With the latter of the tripartite being the formation he used to beat Malmo FF in the Swedish Cup final.

                              However, due to personnel and Asbaghi’s recent success with his Sweden U21’s side, I’d expect the Reds to favour the 3-4-3 and 4-2-3-1 under Asbaghi. The former being due to the Reds’ gluttony of Centre-Halves and the latter due to Asbaghi’s superb success with Sweden U21’s, where he deployed the 4-2-3-1 to perfection as he guided them to 6 wins from 10 games.

                              With the 4-2-3-1 certainly, Asbaghi has favoured a team press, with the press of his Göteborg side being most interesting, where he mostly committed five players high and with a man-orientated scheme. The most important man-marking part was the midfield, where a midfielder would drop deeper to mark the opposition’s most advanced midfielder or second striker, while two other two targets (often the midfield two) were marked by the far-side winger and another midfielder. The ball-side winger should close the ball-side full-back, while the strikers were pressing the centre-backs in a 2-2. That may sound very complicated, I know - but visually it would look like a much more coordinated press than what we have seen for a long while, where every player would be given a specific role to perform in the attacking unit.

                              Personnel wise, I’m pretty confident in making a prediction that whoever the left-sided attacker is in Asbaghi’s system is going to be pretty fruitful, whether that be Aaron Leya-Iseka or Carlton Morris. I’d also imagine that we may finally see a Callum Brittain that somewhat resembles the player we all watched on iFollow last season, with Asbaghi liking his full-backs to bomb on high up the pitch, whether that be in the 3-4-3 or 4-2-3-1. Finally, I can also envisage a world where Claudio Gomes is afforded masses of time on the ball, due to the system the Swede favours, to pick out some real Hollywood passes.

                              Wombles

                              This is where I’m going to get onto Asbaghi’s assistant, 33 year-old Spaniard, Ferran Sibila.

                              An exponent of the Ekkono method, (it has been mentioned this may sound very similar to Orinoco the Womble), Sibila has some really bright ideas about the way that footballers should be coached, so I’m going to briefly cover what said Ekkono method entails.

                              The Ekkono Method is a training methodology in which the objective is to ensure that players are capable of correctly interpreting the game and finding intelligent solutions in the field. It has four major guidelines which I’ll outline here;

                              Games: Design and continuous readjustment of the training tasks to make sure that players are embedded in the learning context.

                              Perception: Perceptive training is included in the content planning to ensure players have strong in-game perception mantras.

                              Questions: When training, the players are confronted with problematic situations and they are asked to answer questions.

                              Concepts: Training contents is not enough; concepts need to be trained as well, a concept may be for example the concept of ‘Gegenpressing’ or ‘Tiki-Taka’.

                              Thus, coaches often specialise in improving a players’ physical and technical aspects because these qualities are perceived as the most important. However, there is a third key part to the game that is often overlooked.

                              This is the cognitive aspect of the game – the way players perceive the game and make crucial decisions in the field.

                              This is as much psychology as it is sport, but I’m really excited about the prospect of Ekkono at Oakwell, especially as it has been mentioned to me many times on the terraces this season that we are possibly lacking a ‘psychological edge’ that we once possessed.

                              Unfortunately I don’t have a looking glass in which I can tell you where we’re going or where we’re bound, but hopefully Poya & Ferran can turn our world around and guide us into a much more comfortable position in the Championship table.

                              Whatever happens next, I think we should strap ourselves in for another Magical Mystery Tour.

                              What do you think? All feedback is appreciated, if you want to comment on this article or chat about Barnsley Football Club, you can find me on Twitter, my handle is @TomOTPE.

                              https://www.onthepontyend.com/2021/1...mbles.html?m=1

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