World Cup 2026 Group G [IRAN]

[persiangodfather]

what are the chances some players are denied visa due to serving in the military

[Keano]

Indeed we got lucky with a dream WC group, but keep in mind even if we advance from this group, we will be in the same position as the previous World Cup appearances (32 teams)

Having said that, as much as I hate to admit, we will lose to Belgium, and most likely lose to Egypt as well (Most of us got fooled by their weak appearance in UAE's Al ain cup), we will beat New Zealand narrowly. Our team is real old and slow

[Shahin K]

I sadly don't think so. They want an Irooni coach in USA to make a statement. That statement will be embarrassment like every other "statement" the mighty IR/IFF has tried to make in history, but it's a statement nonetheless. If IFF has any brains they'd fire him and bring in Skocic or Feliz Sanchez, someone who has some knowledge of TM football and a semblance of tactics. Apparently we offered Felix the job after CQ left in early 2023, but we couldn't wait for his availability and appointed GN instead (who was readily available strangely!). Someone like Skocic or Sanchez leading TM, easy round of 32 and good possibility of Rof16 or beyond if we get lucky and Uruguay beats Argentina in round of 32.

With GN, 1 point from NZ guaranteed. and we escape bottom of the group. Final standings calling today:

Belgium 7 pts
Egypt 5 pts
NZ 2 pts
Iran 1 pt.

If you want to save this and come back to this in June 2026, please do. Guaranteed if GN is coach, and it's sad that IFF knows this and will do nothing about it. Laziness mixed with an intent to degrade anything good we have. Nobody cares about TM in Iran anymore, and us abroad care less than in any recent memory. It is intentional. They want us to do well enough that they can say "look at the mighty Iran, easy WC qualification against minnow teams (except can't beat UZB). Oops, we sucked on the international stage, please don't flood to the streets to enjoy life, we don't prefer that! Doing just enough to keep people complacent, but overall sucking the joy out of anything enjoyable in life. This is the standard for us Iranians.

I agree with it all

[Afat11]

Is there any hope at all that GN will get fired? Whit 6 months + to go to the WC it must happen asap.

I think plenty of decent coaches would accept to be able to coach at the WC.

I sadly don't think so. They want an Irooni coach in USA to make a statement. That statement will be embarrassment like every other "statement" the mighty IR/IFF has tried to make in history, but it's a statement nonetheless. If IFF has any brains they'd fire him and bring in Skocic or Feliz Sanchez, someone who has some knowledge of TM football and a semblance of tactics. Apparently we offered Felix the job after CQ left in early 2023, but we couldn't wait for his availability and appointed GN instead (who was readily available strangely!). Someone like Skocic or Sanchez leading TM, easy round of 32 and good possibility of Rof16 or beyond if we get lucky and Uruguay beats Argentina in round of 32.

With GN, 1 point from NZ guaranteed. and we escape bottom of the group. Final standings calling today:

Belgium 7 pts
Egypt 5 pts
NZ 2 pts
Iran 1 pt.

If you want to save this and come back to this in June 2026, please do. Guaranteed if GN is coach, and it's sad that IFF knows this and will do nothing about it. Laziness mixed with an intent to degrade anything good we have. Nobody cares about TM in Iran anymore, and us abroad care less than in any recent memory. It is intentional. They want us to do well enough that they can say "look at the mighty Iran, easy WC qualification against minnow teams (except can't beat UZB). Oops, we sucked on the international stage, please don't flood to the streets to enjoy life, we don't prefer that! Doing just enough to keep people complacent, but overall sucking the joy out of anything enjoyable in life. This is the standard for us Iranians.

[Artaxerxes]

Is there any hope at all that GN will get fired? Whit 6 months + to go to the WC it must happen asap.

I think plenty of decent coaches would accept to be able to coach at the WC.

[Nokhodi]

Egypt results in CAN will be a good indicator for their WC performance

Iran_19 jan, rumor is that if they don't get a good result, the coach will be fired.
That might give their team some hope and chance for improvement.

[Iran_19]

Egypt results in CAN will be a good indicator for their WC performance

[Essi]

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Egypt lost 0-3 to Jordan and Salah was fired from Liverpool. This is excellent news for Iran.

Thanks Webi jan. I think this is related to the ongoing Arab Cup and Egypt have their B team, not even the headcoach is there so we can not rely so much on this result. Egypt would be definitely a different team

[webmaster]

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Egypt lost 0-3 to Jordan and Salah was fired from Liverpool. This is excellent news for Iran.

[Shahin K]

Shall we laugh or cry?? Who the F made this decision?? Well of course liberals are dumb cause they didn't check who was playing. Retards 😂🤣😅
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSAsZlUj...dpNXZoZW55Yw==

laugh, I hoped Egypt would accept it. Let IR suffer.

Eventhough I find it bs lol

[Artaxerxes]

Shall we laugh or cry?? Who the F made this decision?? Well of course liberals are dumb cause they didn't check who was playing. Retards 😂🤣😅
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSAsZlUj...dpNXZoZW55Yw==

These olaghmaghz liberals thinks anti pride is a middle eastern / north african issue, the majority of the world rejects this gay facist movement, try to do it in Greece, Italy the ex yugoslavian nations of Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro etc, Bulgaria, Alabania the African continent etc etc and lets see what they would do.

The majority of the pridenazis is in a few states in the U.S, England, Scandinavia, Germany, Australia and Netherlands who loves this bullsh*t and wants to force it on everyone, and those who rejects it they call "nazis, facist and cavemen".

Liberal logic.

I miss the days a man was a man, a woman was a woman and football was football.

[webmaster]

Shall we laugh or cry?? Who the F made this decision?? Well of course liberals are dumb cause they didn't check who was playing. Retards 😂🤣😅
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSAsZlUj...dpNXZoZW55Yw==

It's a comedy already

https://www.instagram.com/p/DSBEwMuiByZ/?igsh=MXExY3h3cmV1eHB4Zw==

[Afat11]

I knew 2025 was a bad year for TM, but I really just had a chance to look at it all on Wikipedia. Wow, 5 wins out of 12 matches, and the wins were against mostly minnows outside of UAE. We have not beaten Uzbekistan in 3 meetings this year, lost to them once, lost to Qatar, drew against Cape Verde and Tajikistan. I'm watching the YouTube reactions to our group and everyone keeps saying that we are an afterthought in our group, and it makes me upset to hear. Honestly, some of them seem to be following our team closely, and I don't disagree with some of their takes. Egypt is also not in amazing form, but we know that if we're mentally weakened and are not playing with discipline, any tokhmi team like Angola can beat us. Does anyone have an amoo or mafia relationship to Islamic Republic to make the call to have this guy fired? I know Iran is all party bazi, how nobody has swooped in to take this guys job and do a coup in TM against him is astounding. I used to follow TM so closely, but basically boycotted while he's been manager. I will follow closely again once he's fired. Until then, get ready for more yellow and a lot of red coming up in the graph below.

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[webmaster]

Shall we laugh or cry?? Who the F made this decision?? Well of course liberals are dumb cause they didn't check who was playing. Retards 😂🤣😅

https://www.instagram.com/p/DSAsZlUjMI9/?igsh=MXE0bzdpNXZoZW55Yw==

[Afat11]

I am checking TM's recent results, and did anyone notice in our last 6 games, our record is 1 Win, 3 draws and 2 losses in 90 minutes? I'm counting the Cape Verde and Uzbekistan games as draws since they were 0-0 in 90 minutes. How is GN still employed? Did CQ or any of our other coaches have a run of games this bad against such a weak level of opposition in succession? I can't remember. If CQ did, I must have been really biased to not notice. If any other coach had these results I'd expect them to be fired. The fact we sent GN to USA for the draw is a disgrace.

Allowing him to stay TM coach will be the death of our football. We will go out in the group stage of 2026 with a whimper, have no new/young talent to look forward to, and we will be in a dark age for our football. It's very sad that our golden era passed with nothing to show for it. CQ served his purpose, but after 2018, a quality coach was needed to take our team to the next level. Wilmost, followed by Skocic who was decent but not who we needed is why we squandered a golden opportunity in 2022 and we are going to be embarrassed in 2026.

I remember the aberoo rizi I suffered telling my friends to follow 2006 and 2010 world cups and us looking foolish in 2006 and not even qualifying in 2010. I'm not looking forward to being embarrassed again. If IFF has any intelligence, they will fire GN yesterday and bring in someone to try to salvage the team and play a handful of friendlies before June to get us in shape. Cut down the IPL a few weeks so we can have a long camp to prepare the team. Without these drastic measures, I guarantee a 0-0 draw with NZ, a 2-0 loss to Belgium and a 1-0 loss to Egypt. I will actually go and put money on those exact results in Las Vegas if he is the coach in June 2026. No amount of Dennis Eckert or Dennis Rodman can save a clueless coach. Is there any chance Skocic can be brought into TM? I honestly think he will get us out of the group as 2nd. We won't overachieve, but with some luck I actually think we could make Rof16 with someone of Skocic's level given our fairly weak group and potential Rof16 opponent if we finish 2nd.