5 years a go and right after Iran-Russia's friendly when he was watching the game from stands and couple days later he signed with Team-Melli, his main task was qualifying this team to World Cup and he did.
People shouldn't forget he took over one of the less talented ever TM squad, i am following TM for around 30 years and i never saw this dryness in level of talents in country, League was full of older players who were still around and were getting constantly called by previous coaches to TM.
That forced him to go look outside for so called 2-Rageh players like Dejagahn, Gucci, Omid Nazari, Beitashour, Davari. Some with good qualities, other with half decent and few with really below-average(Omid Nazari who played in Sweden League II).
He was key to convincing players like Gucci and Dejagah, specially the latter one. Ghotbi, Daei all tried to convince this guy to join TM, no success. Dejagah said publicly having a guy like CQ as Iran coach made the decision of playing for TM much easier.
During years Iran had way more talented squad but failed to qualify to WC, which is major tournament for any country, here are list of few teams which all had squads way superior to our 2010-2014 cores:
-1994 team with Parvin, failure
-2002 with Blazevic and his big mouth, failure
2010, Daei and Ghotbi, another failure.
You can add 1990 as well but that team was young.
Now talking about Asian Cup, again he made no promise to win it, and we came back twice to tie the game 3-3 and P.K is always luck. Being a man down for over 90 minutes is not something easy. We were totally dominating that game and even scored a goal until that stupid red card.
On top of that, the only criticize some media, coaches had for this guy was he is not trusting younger players, he is not trusting local league products. Now that League forced teams to have certain numbers of U-21 and U-23 players and with few players at very young age shining in League, he also made TM younger and yesterday the average age of team was 25!
4 years a go we had no one in Europe, Javad and Masoud were on their way back to home or Arab Leagues, now we have Jahanbakhsh, Azmoun, Milad Mohammadi, Ezzatollahi, Haghighi, Ansarifard and Taremi is on his way as well..
I know Kamboujieh tried to be sarcastic, but no Vatani coach can even match any second rated east European coach, let alone a guy like CQ.
Be morabiaye dakheli to Bangeladesh Team nemiddan coach konan onvaght dahaneshoun hamishe baze!