Do you think we will make it to the World Cup 2022 ?

[SkyeKingu]

The better question is will there even be a World Cup next year.

Next year? In 2021? Certainly not.

[Sly]

If Skocic can do the "mission impossible" and make us qualify to the WC, all the CQ nostalgia will all be forgotten.

At least until the WC.

[Adesor Vafaseya]

“Its hard to predict, but its even hard not to predict” - Adesor Vafaseya

[inarsenewetrust]

I don’t see why not.
We have better legionnaires, league, and football than our competition does, so why should we not make it?

this is the mentality that put us in this place to begin with. I know it is tempting looking at our squad, but reality is football is not played on paper.

Since departure of CQ who hammered this into the brains of the players, and even sometimes would pick seemingly inferior players to carry out specific tasks on the pitch, we can see a level of entitlement (not complacency imo) in TM.

Iranian media exacerbates this. See Japan match. "We havent won the asian cup in 40+ years, we HAVE to win now, "football e asia be ma ye jam bedehkare" that misaghi promo on 90, etc.

Nobody has a right to win a football match bc they have better players, their players are in cool european leagues, their players played at WC, etc. This may be true in some levels of club football, but in international football the arab players in particular are going out their to kill our guys and show that they are just a bunch of overrated stars. This is the exact mentality our guys have when they take on portugal, spain, morocco, argentina and why they performed so admirably. As long as the opposition has a competent coach with good motivational skills they are able to flip the equation on us (see iraq and bahrain)

IF we want to get through, then there must be a mentality reset by skokic. Yes we have best players, playing in best leagues, with most experience. We can use that to our advantage, but must also see its limitations. We still have to fight for every inch on the pitch, and start games as high intensity. If our players are at such a higher level than opposition, they should be able to keep the ball vs bahrain and iraq for more than 3 passes in a row. They typically cannot do this, so then they must be prepared to scrap for every inch and not get frustrated by that style of play or think they are above it. CQ got the team to accept this reality very well.

[Leicester City]

I don’t see why not.

We have better legionnaires, league, and football than our competition does, so why should we not make it?

[M.U.F.C]

1. It is still to early to talk about those things. The focus should always be the next game.
2. As KC McElroy said the better question is will there even be a World Cup next year.

[KC McElroy]

The better question is will there even be a World Cup in 2 years.

[Frank Ocean]

I’m having serious doubts that we will make it.


- long corona virus break, fitness level of our players has always been a problem and now we have had out players sitting on their asses for such a long time only having cholo kababs and doogh
- inexperienced no-name coach, who is this guy?
- chaotic preperation, no friendly games, no camps, who is in charge at IFF right now?
- historically we have had proplems with Arab teams, specially IRAQ we’ve never beaten them comfortably
- we have literally no leader in our team, we had charismatic leaders like Nekounam, Dejagah before now there’s noone who can take that place, who is even our captain?


Just some points speaking against us, I am sure there is a lot more.