{"id":43539,"date":"2021-09-11T09:03:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T16:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=43539"},"modified":"2021-09-11T09:03:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T16:03:22","slug":"the-quality-of-irans-performances-will-improve-javad-zarincheh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2021\/09\/11\/the-quality-of-irans-performances-will-improve-javad-zarincheh\/","title":{"rendered":"The quality of Iran\u2019s performances will improve: Javad Zarincheh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tehran Times – TEHRAN, Former Iran national team defender Javad Zarincheh has weighed in with his opinion about Iran\u2019s performance in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iran\u2019s Dragan Skocic era continues with consecutive victories as the \u2018Persian Leopards\u2019 began their campaign in the 2022 World Cup qualification Round 3 with two wins against Syria and Iraq and cemented their position as the top team of Group A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIran entered the tournament without preparatory games, and this could be a big weakness for us. But the team did a great job and ended with full marks,\u201d Zarincheh said in an interview with Tehran Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe foreign-based players had good coordination, which made up for the lack of training camps and friendly matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think that game by game, the quality of Iran\u2019s performance will improve because the players, especially the new ones, will get to know each other better over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBesides, in these competitions, the ultimate goal is to qualify for the World Cup, so what matters most is the result, not the quality of the game,\u201d Zarincheh added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The man, who was a member of Iran at the 1998 FIFA World Cup, also talked about Iraq national team who suffered a 3-0 defeat against Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIraq are a good team with a great coach. Usually, the teams, who play defensive and closed football against Iran, create many problems for us, but Iraq played open football and didn’t just focus on defensive tactics. It made a good opportunity for Skocic\u2019s side to get the result,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zarincheh disagrees with those who believe that Iran have been drawn in the easier group of the World Cup Asian qualifiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSyria, Iraq, South Korea, Iraq, Lebanon, and the UAE are not weak at all; they are all strong and competitive teams. There is no easy group or easy match in modern football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEveryone can be satisfied with Dragan Skocic in charge because he has done such a great job so far at the national team. I think that Iran football federation and its president, Mr. Azizi Khadem, made a smart decision by appointing Skocic as the head coach in the difficult situation and he did a good job in Round 2 of the qualifiers,\u201d Zarincheh concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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