For the sake of God, please stop the childish coach comparisons!

[Martin-Reza]

MK appointment is absolutely unbelievable, I may actually turn to Islam for an explanation of what's happened here...

Lol, I guess you already found the answer by that.

[faraz]

Amin Jan,

I don't exactly understand what you are asking.

if you are asking us to simply not compare any of our past coaches, then what can we base our future decisions on? Shouldn't there be some sort of guidelines as to what we look for in a coach on a regular basis? What better guidelines than to let professionals assess the decisions coaches made in the past with resources available to them, compare that situation to the current one, and choose a coach based on that?

Maybe someone can tell me what the approach is to choosing a coach for our national team, other than he must pray and have a beard...

I don't know why it stings people so much that Branko was comfortably able to take us to the world cup? When it comes down to it, we are all talking about Branko here right? Let's stop hiding in the bush and come out with the real subject...

MK appointment is absolutely unbelievable, I may actually turn to Islam for an explanation of what's happened here...

[Martin-Reza]

We are in a very normal situation in football, but IFF and the government paniced like a rabbit seeing a snake and sacked the coach.

They had no plan B and so after days of argument between dozens of domestic coaches who all wanted the job, a compromise was made among them.

No foreigner, no newbie was all that mattered to them. Nobody who could challenge their power.

So now we have someone having had the almost exactly results like Daei did now (apart from beating China twice), who also fell apart with Iran's keyplayers at the time.

Someone who has not coached any major team, or has ever come close to winning a title in football, apart from AC 1996.

I could talk about the stories being told about the Korea game back then, but I don't want to spread rumours.

I think we have the worst possible situation now. But still, a win in North Korea could even be achieved with a donkey on the bench.

I won't say we would win that anyway. That would be unfair. But as said at the beginning, we are in a quite usual situation in football, simply needing to deliver in the next game, no wonder needed.

[Doctor DOOM]

I agree.

we are in a unique situation and each situation is very different from another.

[Amin_]

Please, please, I'm begging you to stop the stupid childish comparisons of previous coaches to make a point.
It's so stupid that it hurts my eyes seeing some of us arguing like little kids, coming up with only results, while forgetting ALL OTHER FACTORS/CIRCUMSTANCES these results were achieved in, to "prove" that f.e. Branko was better than MK


I do not need to say this to F+ members, but just saying "Branko won this and that match, but MK lost to x and y, hence Branko > MK", or "Branko's team scored an average of ... and MK's team ..., so Branko is better" is just laughable.

Comparing previous coaches with the present ones (specally coaches from 15 years ago to the current one) is just insanely wrong!
There are soo mny factors that have to be taken into consideration that it just is not possible to make these comparisons; I'll name just a few:

* state of football Iran was in in that era; f.e. MK had to take over TM at its worst possible state...our football was at its lowest in our history.

* state of the league; we didn't even have a professional league back then and it was much worse than it is nowadays.

* state of the players; we did not have many nameworthy players, let alone legionaires. It was MK who got the guts to take a risk, throw some of the oldies out and start off with a new generation, hereby introducing players like Daei and Azizi (and many more) to our football.

* the way the team played, only results don't show everything.

* the opponents a team had to face and the state they were in.

* the time a coach is given; some coaches are given only 1 year, while others can work up to a major tournament for 4-5 years...


etc. etc. (I don't want to go through all of them)

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The point is that there are soo many factors at hand, that it just isn't possible to make such comparisons between previous and present coaches. Soo many things have changed in the meantime, so many new players have risen up and fallen down, so much has happened to our other Asian rivals, so many..., that just coming up with some results to prove how one coach is supposed to be superior is unlogical and wrong!



Please forget about Branko, Qn, ..., they are all gone and it won't benefit us if we keep concentrating on the past and how "well or bad" they did compared to other coaches. I am getting tired of all the comparisons once a coach is being selected.

It was the same between Qn and Branko after the WC; it was the same between Qn and Daei after the AC; now it's between MK, Branko and Daei

We are not gaining anything putting our energy into these lame comparisons, just because we idolize one and hate the other. Please guys, stop this bad habit.


Ghorbanetoon,

Amin