[Sat. March 17] Iran vs Sierra Leone - 8:00AM EST

[PersianLegion]

All agreed. but what you don't bring up is that we started to have a long period of talent drought way before CQ came to Iran. At one point in time, we had Nekounam, Teymourian and Khalatbari as our 3 best players in TM. No young prospects, no talents you could imagine would go to Europe and succeed. CQ came to our football at our worst possible period! The fact that you see we have so many players in Europe and new talents coming up now, is a change that was stimulated by CQ!

I do agree that defensive football is not in our blood (I was so against CQ in the beginning for that) but with the lack of talents we had in the beginning, you can not blame CQ to start it off like that. When you look at TM games now however, you see that we have a good defense, but we also do attack. A big change from before. I think we play much more entertaining now then we did 4-5 years ago. The other day, I did go back to our games from around 15-20 years ago when we think we had an entertaining TM. I watched some of the games and to be honest we didn't even have close to the team work that current TM puts together at times. It was all about individual brilliance of Karimi and Mahdavikia from time to time.

So I have changed my mind completely. I think as a team, we play so much better, more solid and more entertaining now than we did back in 96-2006 when only our stars shined individually. We think at that time we had an entertaining TM because frankly between 96-2006, we had some of the best players in Iran's history. But as a team, they sucked.

You argument is more fair compare to rest of CQ fans. But I respectfully don't agree 100 percent with that.

[Nokhodi]

Will the match be broadcast guys?

Someone will be on the sideline with a potato hopefully.

[ideannakhjavani]

Will the match be broadcast guys?

Be omide khoda hopefully better than 360p and not filmed with an electric trimmer this time

[Bi-honar]

Will the match be broadcast guys?

[sirvan]

4-2-3-1

Lak

Ghafouri Khanzadeh Cheshmi Ansari

Kamyabinia Ebrahimi

Torabi

Rezaeian Rezaei Amiri

[Nokhodi]

Can an injured player be invited to a national camp if he is injured? Or does this mean Nottingham forrest have released him?

This photo is from London.

[pdot]

Ashkan Dejagah, under the supervision of the physiotherapist of the Iranian national football team, will recover his recovery.

Can an injured player be invited to a national camp if he is injured? Or does this mean Nottingham forrest have released him?

[Iranianarsenal11]

You want to duplicate Torabi?

I would if I could lol... Torabi deserves 2x playing time after he keeps getting snubbed to the bench

[DJPedram]

[DJPedram]

Ashkan Dejagah, under the supervision of the physiotherapist of the Iranian national football team, will recover his recovery.

[greenguy4life]

You want to duplicate Torabi?

Amiri left wing

[FootballeKhob]

This would be my line up.

Hosseini, Rezaeian, Khanzadeh, Montazeri, Ansari, Torabi, Karimi, Abdollahzadeh, Gholizadeh, Rezaei, Torabi.

Then sub in Alipour, Amiri, Noorafkan, Ebrahimi, Kamyabinya, Cheshmi etc.

Want to see an experimental line up against Sierra Leone

You want to duplicate Torabi?

[greenguy4life]

This would be my line up.

Hosseini, Rezaeian, Khanzadeh, Montazeri, Ansari, Torabi, Karimi, Abdollahzadeh, Gholizadeh, Rezaei, Torabi.

Then sub in Alipour, Amiri, Noorafkan, Ebrahimi, Kamyabinya, Cheshmi etc.

Want to see an experimental line up against Sierra Leone

[teammelli91]

Looking forward to the first cap of Ali Alipour and Omid Nourafkan.

[puddha]

Ali Karimi is not ... mal. He is our best player ever. All Karimi haters should take a hike.

Iran vs Somali Pirates version 2. Don't we have a better team to compete against?

Don't get me wrong, i still get a hard on watching old clips of Karimi dribblin the world. Having said that however, this is the same oghdeh jackass that slapped a ref and was banned in his prime. Same guy that had a promising European career but too lazy to learn a foreign language.
It's a shame really. Such talent, little to no intelligence.