Post your Football Memories Here

[Iran_19]

I had the chance of seeing many of our legends each time they were in visit with their team in Shahi(Qaemshahr) stadium or Sari(during ostaani competition) specially in Qaemshahr as my grandpa(RIP)mother side was from there and used to live by 5 min walk from Vatani stadium and i was lucky to see players right after the game
lots of stars in that time, Daei, Pious, Khakpour, Estili, Moharrami, Panjali, Bavi(RIP) , nasser mohammadkhani, etc also from Mazandaran, Dastneshan brothers( Nader RIP and Rahim) Jogtapor, Ghadir Ghafari, Mohammad Taghavi, Meagar saravi etc

most of them quite nice! Bi adabeshon moharami bod loool
i also never forget the night of Aussie match in Melbourne! Cold night in montreal, i was quite new in Canada, took subway at mid night and played billard with few friends in a place not far from bar we watched the game just to kill sometime
Billard place closed at 3 am and we were in street in cold november of canada back to 28 years a go until 4: 00 to get into the bar and at 4:30, the bar was full on two floors!
at 0-2 , i was so pissed o be zamin zaman fosh midadan lool and told my older friend lets go ! He replied to me: beshin hosele kon….
what a night!
i cheered for TM in last 36 years and will continue to do that even though most of the time is painful to watch them and we haven’t won jack ass since revolution!
Thanks Kamran jan for such thread
Cheers Rofagha!

[Karimi 8]

I have two memories that come to mind. I’ve only had the chance to see Iran play 3 times, 2 WAFF matches and 1 WCQ. The first tournament I went to the game when we beat Qatar 6-1 and then Jordan 2-1 in the finals, then a WCQ with a 0-0 tie with Qatar.

The third game (the WCQ) I went to I didn’t have any of my family to take me that took me the first time to the WAFF tournament games, and my uncle took me who is not into sports at all. Poor guy kept taking a wrong turn and we kept missing the stadium which he was taking me to without navigation and he was feeling embarrassed. We got there early still for the game, and I’m forever grateful that thanks to him I was able to see players like Nekounam, Teymourian, Dejagah and most importantly for me, Karimi play live. I would’ve never seen these players live if it wasn’t for him taking me, poor guy sat with back pain uncomfortable on the stadiums horrible chairs, then we got stuck in so much traffic getting out. But I will never forgot that day and what he did for me to go to see my favorite players in person.

The second memory was also during a summer visit to Iran, and this time at my lovely grandmothers house. I was trying to be quite and was stressed during the Iran vs Uzbekistan match, and then I believe Karim laid off a perfect last minute pass to khalatbari. I started screaming and running around the house and I scared my poor grandma haha. But she was happy for me that it was a good result. She’s passed away now but just thinking about the comfort of her home, her during the match constantly trying to calm me down and my erupt yelling and running after the goal I’ll never forget.

Family is everything friends, and when that gets combined with your passion of football really cherish those moments.

[Karimi 8]

I grew up in Melbourne. Could speak Persian (fairly poorly), but wasn’t so connected to my Iranian heritage, trying to fit in Australia was hard. My dad worked as a taxi driver 18 hours a day so I barely saw him, except when he took me to football on weekends. I played football 4 or 5 times a week, and it is the main thing we connected on.

We started following TM during the 1997 WCQ. It was almost impossible to watch here, we would get in a car and end up at some random Iranian’s house watching with Arabic commentary. I remember all those matches, the loss against Qatar and Japan. Then, playing Australia was like a dream come true. We went to the game and then to the hotel for days after, met all the players and staff. Best memory of my life, and more importantly, made me connect way more to my Iranian culture. I became completely fluent in Persian, studied Iranian history at university, and have followed TM ever since. My dad is older now and can’t wake up for games, but we still watch highlights together. Without football and TM, there is no way I would be as Iranian as I am.

Gave me goosebumps reading this man, such a lovely story and so happy to hear it. And good on you for still keeping your dad up to date with the highlights I’m sure it means a lot to him.

[oracle]

I give you 2018 team. And it could’ve been stronger but Dejagah was injured, Taremi still in mid east, Azmoun was on bench all season in Russia, etc.

Actually reminds me only time we saw Azmoun prepared for a tournament was 2015 and 2019 AC. For 2018 wc he was warming bench for berdyev, 2022 wc and 2023 ac out of shape. And the fans want more tournament for this player…

There is no question sardar has been immature, unprofessional and not appreciating his talent and trust me when is all set and done he will regret his behavior, but he has gas left in tank for wc26 and ac 27 to be effective, so he must be used.

How u feel about sardar , I felt for ali karimi and azizi. Both karimi and azizi hurt themselves by being unprofessional and bad attitude. Them 2 not only hurt themself achievement wise but they also hurt tm and the fans. Not making 2002 wc was beacause of azizi and not making 2010 wc was because of karimi. For years I called for their prosecution for treason.

Karimi last week on podcast admitted he would eat PIRASHKI AND SANBUSE FEW HOURS BEFORE THE MATCH BEGAIN.I TURNED the tv OFF TV WHEN I HEARD THAT .
what piss me off more about karimi he haD 6 PACK AT 40.

[mehdi13]

Imo
2018 wc team will beat 98,2006 wc team head to head.

For me is between 5 teams(excluding the 1970s)

Tm wc 2018 vs tm ag 1990 vs tm 1984 ac vs tm 2002wcq vs 1996 ac.

I give you 2018 team. And it could’ve been stronger but Dejagah was injured, Taremi still in mid east, Azmoun was on bench all season in Russia, etc.

Actually reminds me only time we saw Azmoun prepared for a tournament was 2015 and 2019 AC. For 2018 wc he was warming bench for berdyev, 2022 wc and 2023 ac out of shape. And the fans want more tournament for this player…

[mehdi13]

What good was it? Two Asia cup 3rd place finishes and 4 points total in 2 world cups + the colossal f***up in qualifying for 2002. I love all those players but “golden generation” is a curse.

The 2018 generation has been way more consistent at a high level.

One thing to note… previous gen didn’t need khareji players to qualify for world cup. It was strong enough to stand on its own legs in Asia at least. We needed outside talent just to keep our heads above water in Asia back in 2012. 2 of top 5 influential player in 2014 campaign came from Europe.

[oracle]

What good was it? Two Asia cup 3rd place finishes and 4 points total in 2 world cups + the colossal f***up in qualifying for 2002. I love all those players but “golden generation” is a curse.

The 2018 generation has been way more consistent at a high level.

Imo
2018 wc team will beat 98,2006 wc team head to head.

For me is between 5 teams(excluding the 1970s)

Tm wc 2018 vs tm ag 1990 vs tm 1984 ac vs tm 2002wcq vs 1996 ac.

[Pluto2000]

What good was it? Two Asia cup 3rd place finishes and 4 points total in 2 world cups + the colossal f***up in qualifying for 2002. I love all those players but “golden generation” is a curse.

The 2018 generation has been way more consistent at a high level.

For real. People love their rosy eyed glasses look but forget how many atrocious games we had back then. Back when we actually used to lose to Kuwait, Bahrain, Syria, Iraq on a consistent basis. Did that generation ever 3-0 Iraq away? Or dominate South Korea for nearly 10 years? How about win two world cup games and tie Portugal?

[Nokhodi]

Hopefully we can reach this level again and be pride of Asia.

What good was it? Two Asia cup 3rd place finishes and 4 points total in 2 world cups + the colossal f***up in qualifying for 2002. I love all those players but “golden generation” is a curse.

The 2018 generation has been way more consistent at a high level.

[mehdi13]

Hopefully we can reach this level again and be pride of Asia.

[momad2468]

I grew up in Melbourne. Could speak Persian (fairly poorly), but wasn’t so connected to my Iranian heritage, trying to fit in Australia was hard. My dad worked as a taxi driver 18 hours a day so I barely saw him, except when he took me to football on weekends. I played football 4 or 5 times a week, and it is the main thing we connected on.

We started following TM during the 1997 WCQ. It was almost impossible to watch here, we would get in a car and end up at some random Iranian’s house watching with Arabic commentary. I remember all those matches, the loss against Qatar and Japan. Then, playing Australia was like a dream come true. We went to the game and then to the hotel for days after, met all the players and staff. Best memory of my life, and more importantly, made me connect way more to my Iranian culture. I became completely fluent in Persian, studied Iranian history at university, and have followed TM ever since. My dad is older now and can’t wake up for games, but we still watch highlights together. Without football and TM, there is no way I would be as Iranian as I am.

[oracle]

27 years ago:

Thank god there was away goal rule back then.

[Nokhodi]

27 years ago:

[mehdi13]

670 dr.olakui🤣

another charlatan. they should have sent him to prison also.

[oracle]

^ Olagh Koohi?

Three was this dude
Who sweared on his mom
Dr.olakui was rat for savalk when he thought in university in iran. he said Dr. Start politics talk and any student who had any leftist or mazhabi view would
Disappear 🤣🤣🤣