We still have the talents, there is nothing wrong with the Amount of talents, our coaches are either to weak to aknowledge their talent or their talent stagnates at a certain point, one way to make sure talent doesnt stagnate is to get in the picture and once you outgrow your league, move to a stronger league, when our players get better they move to Arab leagues, when European talents get better they leave to other european countries who can get them to the next level, Holland, France, Portugal, Germany and after that they can leave to top countries, Spain, England, Italy.
The issue isnt that easy to solve bc there many problems and it needs alot of work, for our TM's a Good foreign coach is the best short/medium term result. For the long term, we need a stronger youth setup and league, our league can get better by better coaches, foreign ones at first and not just C-list coaches, bc you can only keep relying on foreign coaches for so long, we also need to train our own coaches better, foreign systems need to be analysed. Youth setup is harder to actually improve that quickly, but improving our coaches and system will improve youth too and there needs to be a good Youth league.
But even after all this we still you have the problem of location and focus, European teams just arent focused at the middle-eastern leagues and especially not on Iran. Our TM and Legionars provide our only hope at the moment for the next batch of legionars and normally tournament should also provide exposure, missing out on the WC is dire on so many terms bc of it, thats why I look forward to the u-17 WC. In the future its good for our football for our teams to start a conection with a european satelite club, have a mother club in the big/medium leagues, its one of the ways the African clubs, South American get attention of the european clubs. The Asian clubs also have alot of Satelite clubs but the european clubs mostly start these partnerships bc of economical benefits.
But in the end none of this all mathers, IFF and IR are our biggest enemies and if these organisations, dont know what to call it, dont get overtrown/changed, most or none of these problems are gonna be tackled and we will most likely keep our decline, most of the time its best to start at the root of the problem, but this root is, bc of neglect, pretty well nestled into the ground and it will take alot of time before we might get to start to change for the better.
Oh, yeah ... the thread was about Bielsa, well .. uh .. go .. go .. Bielsa I guess. Chile does/did have alot of Talents, but they arent really world stars either, good maybe a bit better than that, but not much more. I know about their midds mostly, I know less about their attack but its probably at almost the same level, dont really know much about their defense though. What Bielsa did with a decent team was still good, is he a God, doubtfull, but then again the word God gets overused anyway, I think my neighbour might be one, and the Greeks/Roman had a shit bunch of them, so he may be, but I think doing well gets a bit overrated at times.