BT dadash, I don't agree with that statement at all.
When we were kids we were happy to see TM volleyball beat India or Taiwan... now we expect them to compete with the top 10 every time.
Football just needs some good long term planning without all the foozooli and dallals.
And i tell you something else. In Iran, everything is upside down and different from other parts of the world. Its exactly as marhoom Mossadegh once said: Naft baraay hame talaast, baraa maa balaast. You can apply that saying to money too. At least in Iran. Due to that shameless and reckless mentality of dozdi, nozool khori, dalaali, you will never get a head as long as there is money involved in Iran. Everywhere else in the world where caring people get a budget to make things happen, they really do. They use that budget to make things happen and spend it on the actual matter. In Iran the most wealthy federations and institutions are the most corrupt, so whereever there is money, you find all those dozd o angal around it. This actually indicates what i always said and what i will always say: In Iranian football there is A LOT OF money. Huge amounts of money is flowing in there and this is why everybody is killing himself to become either a general manger, team owner, or IFF official and executives. Its simple, these are all dozd who know where the money is and where they can fill their pockets and the risks of failing are very moderate and very overseeable. This is why IR football wont ever succeed at any level aslong there is so much uncontrolled money involved where nobody know where it goes to, what it is spent on, who works with etc.
Volleyball is not in focus. They have a limited amount of budget and everybody knows that they have to work with and that budget is not very lucrative for all those dozd and dallal so they leave it alone and as soon as there is no dozd o dallal involved, some sports seem to flourish in Iran. Only those who really love the sport, remain around it and involved and they really care. In football, i say 80% of those involved are not interested in football at all. Some useless sardaar o sepahi o nocheh o angal are running the show and they dont give a fuck about anything.
I promiss, take away the money and control the flow of it and the least you achieve is that you cut lose those dozd o dallal and thats probably 60-70% of the problem which gets solved on the spot. Absurdly, Volleyball is benefiting from being off focus and able to work with a lot less of dozd o dallal and thats because there is by far not as much money involved in it as in football. That limited money is at least getting spend on the game and its teams and players while 90% of the huge budget of football will already be unavailable to the sports itself because it gets channeled to other accounts and pockets before it reaches its actual destination.
