^Point taken but we're not dealing with teenage players, Iranians are tough, players know what they deal with (political and social situation, ppl and expectations and their overall capability) and the coach is not born yesterday; all nice arguments but they get paid to be professional' ; lets expect and believe they can do that otherwise we're wasting time. At best we beat Morocco and lets' hope for more but lets not be unrealistic.
اساسنامه ٦سال است تاییدیه فیفا ندارد به این معناست که تخلف صورت گرفته و اگر فیفا متوجه این اتفاق شود، ممکن است فوتبال کشور نابود شود
HOw important and critical is this? am sure FIFA has a clue.
اگر قرار باشد علی کریمی هم از مشکلات نگوید، پس چه کسی باید از دردهای فوتبال برای مردم بگوید؟! یک لحظه فکر کنیم که کریمی هم امروز مانند بسیاری از آدمهای این فوتبال، اهل سازش و مصلحتاندیشی و سکوت برای کسب منفعت بود آن وقت دیگر مردم نمیدانستند در یک قرارداد به صورت غیرقانونی و مشکوک به شرکتی مانند ایراننوین از حق باشگاهها ٦٩میلیارد تومان در دوسال خسارت داده شده است. اگر کریمی نبود، کسی نمیدانست قرارداد ٦٠٩٠ که سهساله امضا شد باید در ١٠ ماه ابتدایی ١٤میلیارد تومان پول عاید فوتبال میکرد اما مدیران فقط ٢میلیارد پول درآوردند.
این کریمی بود که به مردم گفت از اسپانسر سال قبل تبلیغات محیطی هم ٣٥میلیارد تومان پول باشگاهها گرفته نشده است. کریمی بود که مدیران فدراسیون را مجبور به پاسخگویی درباره ٧٢هزار دلار گمشده پخش بازیهای تیمملی کرد
هیچ چیزی برای یک جامعه مهمتر از شفافیت نیست. پس مسابقات تیمملی را بهانه نکنیم برای مطرح نکردن سوالات مهم علی کریمی!
http://www.sarpoosh.com/football/football-controversies/football-controversies961107351.html
We are dealing with two issues here.
One is Karimi's criticism of IFF: shortcomings, mismanagement, fraud , and so fort, some of which were mentioned to certain extent in some media outlets in the past but never got proper explanation from IFF or there was not enough followups. Karimi also lacked the ability and knowledge to followup on Saket's responses on some cases (despite being guided and heped by others during the show, and instead would jump to another topic to put pressure on Saket and discredit IFF on all aspects , or would just say "I was not convinced with the answer"!), he brought up those issues along with some new details in few cases. Over all it was positive to bring these issues up and question IFF in a televised debate, however I wish he was better prepared or at least had someone more qualified by his side to argue and debate the issues for him.
The second part was Karimi's acquisition of CQ. He attacked the coach without providing any evidence to support his claims. It is mind boggling that though Karimi was on a popular public platform to criticize IFF and its corruption, he went on attacking the one person who has been fighting the corruption and mismanagement at IFF for past 7 years! The same person who voiced and fought for quality of TM jerseys, lack of training grass field (which made IFF to repair Azadi training fields though still not ready), fought for and created PEC (interestingly Karimi does not mention how the earlier designated facility was given to Afazeli's wife to turn it into a semi business practice and also divert half a million dollar of TM's FIFA given money for their expenses) , cut the dallas hand off TM, fought hard with back-warded and fraudulent elements at IFF and pushed them out like Asadi, Abedini, Torabian, etc... who else has been fighting the corruption and mismanagement as much as CQ within our football industry?
And i am not even mentioning the results CQ has gotten with TM (do you remember any time in post revolution era that we qualified to WC without getting heartburn or stroke? and back to back qualification?), the discipline he inserted in the team, raised value of TM jersey, fought bazikon-salary, motivated young players to develop further...
He also paid salary of the staff out of his pocket while not being paid from IFF for months, arranged camps and friendlies at minimum expense to cover for incompetency and inability of IFF,....
And then Karimi comes out and questions his vacation time or his salary! He basically gargles what CQ's foes such as MayeliKohan and doroogh-varzeshies had said in the past. What questioning CQ time off buys him now? What does he expect to happen even if he has a just claim? Does not he realize that TM and CQ will be busy with camps and preparations for WC for the next few months? Does not he realize that he realize that he is just creating hashiye for TM and disturbing the atmosphere at a time we need to be united for our TM? I guess not.
Karimi had no problem joining TM staff or becoming head coach of Khoneh-be-Khoneh, Naft,and Sepid-rood without having the proper license and training, but he goes on to criticize CQ for number of staff TM needs, as well as hiring someone without adequate credentials and accusing him of nepotism without giving a shred of proof.
The guy quits TM as staff with out any explanation, and then questions why the staff were let go after Branko's fiasco.
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To me Karimi is no hero or a responsible person. He has shown he can be very careless with consequences of his actions. You can see that in his early career when he attacked the referee at an international level, embarrassing and hurting the team for the remainder of the games and getting banned for a year. Later on at WC2006 we saw his action in being a part of division within TM camp and being disrespectful to the team by showing his objection through kicking the medical bag. We know how awful thoes displays were. And now, with these repeated non-sense and new accusations of nepotism and ethical short coming of CQ when TM is having recovery camp and have very crucial preparation ahead of it to be able to play in the hardest ever WC group for Iran. Does Karimi even think about results of his actions or he just does not have any control on lashing out his vengeance?
Do not get me wrong, I like Karimi as a gifted player, simple and a person with a good hearth, However he is too emotional and have lots of mis-information and misgivings. He very much reminds me of how Azizi was in certain ways: very developed and talent in the field, nagging and mixing up wrong and right perhaps due to under developed comprehension abilities outside the field. He is a rebellious and outspoken type who has low tolerance for authority and discipline, despite technical talent lacks work ethics to reach his potentials, and hence these failures (whether as a player not becoming who he could be or as coach who has failed in 3 clubs so far) along with his character shortcomings make him to show so much anger and aggression (look at his interviews where he drops 90s microphone or the way he responded the other day about disturbing TM peace and unity). His vision and knowledge is limited and hence can not recognize right from wrong at all the time. For example when he stands up to sardar Ajoorloo for drinking water after practice during Ramadan, he falls in the arms of another sardar: Hedayati who indeed is a corrupt and money-launderer. And now he wants to fight against fraud, corruption and mismanagement, but he becomes a tool in hands of the same fraudulent and back-warded elements such as Abedini and Mayelikohan, and Instead voice vendetta against the one person who has stood up against those same thing for the past 7 years and brought back a sense proud to us.
Karimi's fan and supporters should ask themselves the question of why bother involve CQ in your battle with IFF at all? Did not he have enough and more substantial and important cases to expose them? Why divert the attention, specially at the WC preparation time, to someone who has been on our side and has brought us good results and had fought the shortcomings of IFF for past few year? Is there a personal agenda behind this diversion? At least take a look at Karimi's supporters when it comes to his claims against CQ and open your eyes to the long list of CQ's old foes like Mayeli Kohan, Zolfagharnasab, Khakpour ... the same people who are either tied to the corrupted elements who are forced out ever since CQ took over the helm at TM or they have a long resume of failure and embarrassment when involved at coaching national teams.