Ali jan,
yeah I do remember Safaei Farahani being criticized alot in his reign. I for one was very critical of him sacking Ivic and appointing Talebi few days before WC 2006 Finals kick-off. that was a very wrong decision, but again he was prob under pressure from big bosses that we didnt know about.
If we be rational, all of us are to be blamed here: from Iranian fans being very very emotional, impatience and result-oriented, to our incompetent local IPL coaches to our IPL game scheduling and coaches' yearly contracts only, and our football being managed by those who have no clue about management or football. specially in the past decade.
But we cant deny the immense destructive role that AliAbadi, Kafashian, Taj, have had in politicization of our football without having slightest capability in management, let alone our football management. and who appointed Aliabadi? well its quite clear really!!
tbh I'd do anything to bring back MehrAlizadeh and Safaie Farahani back to our football management. Our football downfall has been so steep in the past 5 yrs, that its not even funny..
Are we sometimes forgetting what is happening in Iran ?
My goal is not to politicize football discussions. But the fact is that since 30 years, every thing is become political in Iran.
The sad thing about all this is that our beloved country has fallen between the hands of real bastards whose priority has never been Iran but their islamic believes (what they pretend) and their personnal interests (the reality) except maybe Khatamy who
tried to change some things. We have anything but democracy, healthy management and competent and honnest leaders.
The result is what is happenning now : 4 years of AN while this man came to destruct every single step slowly re-made by Khatamy. I'm not defending Khatamy but we have to open our eyes. Mediocricity is better that the catastrophic. As some of you mentionned here, our country and specially our TM got banned by the whole world because of AN speachs and his stupiddest statements.
If the world is interested about our dollars, about selling us expensive shity stuff to get our money, they have no interest about helping our football. So they denied all friendly matches leaving us in our "shit" and making Israel understand that they are not Ahmadi Nejadi Iran's friend !
IFF picked Ali Daei as a trainer as they picked him since tha last WC (where the management organized already by AN fucked our beautiful team from inside).
Daei shouted a while asking for real preparation and real preparation matches but after a while, they gave him the contract of his dreams and the corrupted and selfish Daei forgot every thing about his first demands !
Our TM became his joke. He decided not to use our best players specially those playing in Europe ( read the FIFA website about Iran ), for example he decided not to use MAHDAVIKIA against Korea, but just after that, MAHDAVIKIA was called to be Iran's captain against SAOUDI's. Or another sad example that shows how stupid OR corrupted was DAEI ( not thinking in any way to Iran's interest ) was our preparation and friendly matches : IRAN did not play a single friendly match with all the fix players !! How could this happen ??
It's as if you would watch a friendly match between FRANCE and ARGENTINE (as it happened about a month ago ) and not see the 8 or 9 men in each of these 2 teams who play in other countries, which means all their best players. Same about any other team in the world. But Ali Daei considered that he was something else in this world and that "daste oon balaii" would come down and help him so he wouldn't need all our best players. Even worse : Daei made 11 changes in half time against KOWEIT ! He didnt have a clue about his own choices ! And after 1 year coaching, didnt still have 1 team with 11 players !!!!
This is just examples. Our football like all our country is sick since the roots and things wont really change until we become atleast concious of this.
Daei and Maielikohan, even if they didnt stand each other ( which is because of their "personnal interest in things" ), are the members of the same family : the family of Jomhouri Eslami and the corrupted fanatics who are governing us since 30 years. And they have not finished with us yet !