Ali Daie - Back to Branko

[Doctor DOOM]

bahram jan, what one man may see as "humble and resilient", another man can look at it as "servile and indifferent to the point that he was ready to take any crap from anyone, as long as he somehow reached the WC as a coach on a bench of any team" !

[zzgloo]

If Branko was a good coach and was at least able to do better in the Asian Cup had he continued or was able to get Iran into the WCQ second round, why did we boot him out of our country like that?
Ali Abadi is the person who must answer this question and I personally put all the blame on him and him alone. Because he was the one who entered politics into our football, dissolved our old federation, and created this chaos.

Hadi jaan........
I like to be as objective as I can......and I can not say if I agree with you, nor do I agree with payman.............
Branko , had good and bad charactoristics......among good ones, was that he was humble, and resilient....he tried his best,and was not here just for the money. I would not say, we desereved what we got at the WC, and perhaps,we were a little sub-par.....and a win over a weakest african team was expected,and better game with mexico.....may be a loss we had to Haungry the previouse WC was a better loss,than how we lost to mexico....
But, we had to let him go, other wise, we would have set mediocricy as Goal.
And, to answer you regarding 'why then daei is hired ? ", we must realize,and give credit to IFF, for the audacity of attempting to get Clemente,as it was obviuose, they had that in mind, when they fired Branko !, and hireing Daei is just a temporary major ......
How ever, something els that bothers me, is How aliabadi, denied Ghotbi, only because he was an American...which this may have many implecations,that is not related to this thread, yet important for the future of football, and future of people like me,whom are also American-Iranians.

[Doctor DOOM]

ummm.... hello?
without going into details and massive discussions on merits and demerits of what barnko did to TM, I'll just point out ONE issue , hadi jan:
you said : "I personally felt Iran did not underachieve in the WC, they did well and played as expected"

really?
what if I say if we had a coach who actually had the humility and brains to hire a proper "PHYSICAL TRAINER" for the team ( much like what GN did under far F.A.R. more difficult circumstances in malaysia, given its massive difference with germany in climate and ... ), wouldnt the team do BETTER ?

and again, if we had a coach who did use his brains and didnt put all his eggs in ONE basket - using legioners and only legioners, no matter what , which meant over-reliance on the select few ... WHO INCIDENTALLY [ and ironically ] WERE THE VERY ONES WHO LET US AND TM DOWN IN THE END with their lack of form, injuries, ...., wouldnt we see a very different TM in the games ?


if just these two examples ( among MANY ) are not examples of "under-achieving" , then what is ?
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and truth to be told, under GN until the start of AC07, we did NOT go back to ali-asghari style. in fact I'd say he showed guts in using players in form rather than "names" ( like branko ) and the team did display some sparks that ignited our hopes.
GN's problem and undoing was when he reverted to branko's formation and cautious tactics when the AC07 games started ! I think his lack of int'l experience somehow forced him to become too cautious and lose his nerve to persist with HIS program !

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daei - branko :

thankfully Daei is Iranian and a patriotic one at that. so that means :
- he wont have the indifferent and devil-may-care attitude of branko when it comes to TM and its future.
- he has already mentioned he prefers attacking football, which is exactly opposite of what branko infected the team with, for years.


But I also agree with you that aliabadi has become literally "the root of all evil" in our football .... and unfortunately in other sports as well ! he's doing the same crap in volleyball with their TM coach !!
He needs to be removed from any position of power , in the least.
if it was up to me, I'd just throw his arse in a jail and lose the key.

[Hadi]

2 years ago, majority of football fans and experts unanimously wanted Branko gone, because Iran did not qualify to the second stage of the WC.
(I personally felt Iran did not underachieve in the WC, they did well and played as expected. I also count Branko as Iran's most successful coach in recent years with just a few shortcomings)

Besides, with Aliabadi in charge, Dadkan was sure to go and since Daie and Branko were basically the left and right arms of Dadkan and his federation, they were also doomed.

AliAbadi brought in Ghalehnoyi and our TM was changed drastically. We went back to 'Ali Asghari' and 'Irani' way of football (just like we had done with Shahrokhi, Pourheydari and Mayelikohan) and ultimately as expected, GN failed at the Asian CUp with a string of weak performances. At this point, people (fans) were half thinking that just a year ago, at least we had a more stable TM who played a better football and had less side issues.

TM was literally non-existent for 1.5 years after the Asian Cup. and the chaotic state of our football has made people worried about the future. After 3-4 month of nightmare, finally a AliAbadi supported IFF came into office and after many off-scene games, Ali Daie was chosen as our TM coach. Not surprisingly, the first thing he does is contact Branko. Branko also has expressed his support to Daie. And this all means that Ali Daie will be following the footsteps of Branko as far as 'managing' TM is concerned (management, discipline, player selection, and PERHAPS even tactics).

Now the main question is this:
If Branko was 'bad' and 'evil', why are we going back towards him (jn a way) by choosing Daie?

If Branko was a good coach and was at least able to do better in the Asian Cup had he continued or was able to get Iran into the WCQ second round, why did we boot him out of our country like that?

Ali Abadi is the person who must answer this question and I personally put all the blame on him and him alone. Because he was the one who entered politics into our football, dissolved our old federation, and created this chaos.