AFC U20 Asian Cup 2025

[The]

In the new episode of football360, they mentioned that some of the players in the team have lied about their age. Some have done this with the help of their clubs. They even mentioned one player by name.

This is very disappointing, but makes sense why some of the players were able to manhandle their opponents so easily.

I guess we don't actually have the Asian Kyle Walker in the making.

[oracle]

This team was special and well coached.
Just had a bad draw and it got worsed by Japan tie with syria.
This team would of killed Korea and would of made it to final to face Japan.

We take the champs to pks .
And iran players missed pks really what a shock.

Abdi asap need to get promoted to u23 team.

[Pluto2000]

I don’t know from the highlights, it seems Shakouri big time saved us until PK

He did. Shakouri man of the match to be honest. He had multiple crazy saves, including a really crazy freekick save. TBH if it was Beiranvand it would have been 6-1 at full time . Haven't seen that dive to save balls like that in 5 years from any keeper in TM. They usually fall to their knees or look confused

[PEJ]

Efran’s penalty was absolutely nuts. His run up was like from the other end of China and he literally was trying send that ball back to Iran. The 2nd guy wasn’t much better with his penalty. The best penalty takers are usually the ones who place the ball, not try to kick it as hard as they can.

[Iran_19]

like all Japanese teams they dominated possession but we had some very good chances that our boys absolutely f***ed up on.

I don’t know from the highlights, it seems Shakouri big time saved us until PK

[Pluto2000]

Hossein abdi is a shit coach. Hopefully he will get replaced by a good coach

Who are you gonna bring in to coach Iranian U20 that's more qualified? Do you know a coach that wakes up and goes: "Oh wow I sure love to coach Iranian youth football that has no infrastructure and doesn't have any pay!"

Dude got his EUFA Pro license in La Liga and dropped a cushy job there to come serve our country and take us to a place where we competed with teams like Brazil, England, Uzbekistan, and even took teams like Japan to penalties after almost 8 years!

He's the one created this team from scratch, found all these players in the dehat of the country 4 years ago, and you want him replaced? With who??

[Nokhodi]

I only watched the highlights but seems Japan totally dominated us. And if it wasn’t for Shakouri and D, score could have been terrible!
talking about PK! We lost almost all PK in last 40 years vs big Asian teams!
Abdi in his post game interview said: it was PK and we could have nothing!
i am sorry, but coaches analysis PK takers and keepers of opponents for days before such a crucial game!!

like all Japanese teams they dominated possession but we had some very good chances that our boys absolutely f***ed up on.

[IranPowned]

Hossein abdi is a shit coach. Hopefully he will get replaced by a good coach

[Iran_19]

I only watched the highlights but seems Japan totally dominated us. And if it wasn’t for Shakouri and D, score could have been terrible!
talking about PK! We lost almost all PK in last 40 years vs big Asian teams!
Abdi in his post game interview said: it was PK and we could have done nothing!
i am sorry, but coaches analysis PK takers and keepers of opponents for days before such a crucial game!!

[diz]

Japan dominated us. We were lucky to get to PKs (and lucky to have Arsha).

Japan was clear winner in possession, passes, passes completed, shots, shots on target, shots inside the box, shots outside the box, and passes inside the final third (source: FlashScore).

they even did better in the majority of aerial duals based on the ones I observed.

the only silver lining is that we have a replacement for our senior citizen goalie when he is ready to move into assisted living.

Lastly, huge shout out to our women fans who cheered the entire match and could be heard even over the Japan drums. They are our better half and we don’t even let them cheer our men at home. smh

[The]

Against my nature, here are the positives in my eyes:
- Andarz has the potential to be the best FB/WB in the history of Asian football l
- Shekari can be starting TM material after the 2026 WC if he gets proper coaching.
- We took the best footballing county in Asia to Pens
- Moredi has the physical profile to become a very good striker.
- We did well considering how underfunded and mismanaged out youth football is.
- We lost two of our stars to injury, and things could have been different with them on the pitch.



All that said, unfortunately Sorkhabi clubs and our TM will still prefer giving absolute useless garbage playing time instead of giving the youth a chance.

[Nokhodi]

Uzbekistan went out on penalties too.

and unlike Japan, South Korea gave them plenty of chances to win it!

[PSGman#19]

We can be mad at AFC draw, bad luck..

Honestly participating to U20 at any cost was the only small hope for our football, without even guaranteeing anything. Now our football is off for at least the next 5 years. Now the hidden talents have absolutely 0 chance to go to Europe. And only Europe can develop players whether they are iranian or Japanese. I even expect Andarz and Taheri to come back soon to middle east.

U17 TM have a good draw but they are very bad atm. And with an extended u17 wc, they won't get noticed between 48 teams anyways.

Our league and club are doing quite bad at asian level. We are losing ACL spots very fast. 50 years old like Alishah or Alekasir are overused again and again instead of new players.

Our TM is held hostage by GN and players like Beiro kanaani shoja Noorafkan niazmand or moghanlou. I don't know if it is a good thing if we qualify for wc26 if the project is to bring them. 48 teams wc is a joke anyways but it could be a spectacular fiasco the way we are heading to.

Taremi at Inter is almost the last link to high level football we have. Even if it isn' t a big success, he was right to try the challenge (1 or 2 years too late) instead of staying to Porto which is in shamble and play small teams. Staying too long to crappy asian league or 2nd rate european football was always our cancer

The rest of our of legionnaires' project is a mass exodus to UAE. I think it is what will kill our football for good. IFF allowing our players to go there over Persian gulf name and a big prospect like Ghaedi going/promoting there was a deadly mistake. No problem to have our non TM material players or over 32 there. But our star legionnaires and now young prospects is just catastrophic. I don't think UAE will teach Ghandipour to fix his behavior pb (celebration against Japan, recent red card in the league..).

During that time, countries like Uzbekistan Egypt Georgia are progressing in the right direction and send players in top leagues. It is funny how Russia league works for them to reach big clubs. Our players are sent to Uzbekistan and Croatian 2nd division..

Beyond our football results, it is a true shame we produce so few top players and have so many generational hole. All these in a sport with a huge passion, interest, time money and energy invested in. We better let football and reproduce volleyball, taekwondo karate miracles in others sports

[Nima]

What I mean is that we struggle to play with composure. Our players operate under extreme stress, both in possession during buildup and, especially, out of possession in our own half.

The reason is a combination of poor coaching and poor pitch conditions that allow this style of play to persist.
For example, we struggle to close down ball carriers properly and guide them away from goal. Instead, we always try to win the ball outright, which leads to unnecessary fouls and makes us easy to dribble past and play through. Our players overcommit because they always go for the ball instead of blocking passing lanes and protecting space.
We even had a sequence where we attempted four tackles inside our own penalty area.

That being said, I thought Nima Andarz and Yusuf Mazrae were very positive today.

[Artaxerxes]

bye bye...the Iranian never ending failure in youth level happens again. We really need a more solid country to use these talents instead of destroying them. This team needed an educated foreign coach and yet another bs coach and the same effing story. These people cant even win a game in the streets. Low educated and of course shitty federation and regime has nothing better to offer.

Japan works hard and plays a solid football. We don't so lets not expect anything before we get to the real issues as this will continue as long as the IR is at the helm of our country.

Agreed to 100%, still dont get how some of us still hoping that we will achive anything under I.R occupation.....