Another couple of factors that I believe have contributed are :
1) eradication of incentive programs for incorporation of youth in the league.. IPL under Farahani started with a rule that teams can have up to 4 substitute , provided that the 4th substitute is one of the U23 listed players. This was designed to give more playing time to young players. The rule was signed by all the IPL team representatives before season started (3rd or 4th IPL season)... Everything was fine, until zobahan upset pespes in game .They had brought in a U23 sub in dying minutes . Ghmkhar raised a hell. Pespes Media and fand declared it illegal and issue was sent to FIFA . Eventhough Ghamkhar didn't get his wish of reversing the game outcome, the rule was abandoned in a compromise.....
2) When takht jamshid cup started, leading to golden years of Iranian football, there was a mnadate for eligibilty of teams based on having farm teams. Many talents were introduced by clubs, Even pespes benefited. I recall this young player that would come in after minute 80, and almost score a goal instantly. He is now known as Doctor Zadmehr, and people only associate him as "former sarparast" that talks nicely. But he was actually a pespes farm procut.
League takht jamshid also limited transfer of palyers between league teams to 3 to encourage introduction of young talents.If it wasn't because of taht rule, we probably would not have seen players like maraghechian, panjali, derakhshan,...blossom as quickly as they did. They would have been burried in depth chart of their teams.
When IPL started,they realized the formula of 30 years ago was still a good one. They started with 4 transfer limit But under pressure of big clubs they increased that number to 7 ( for newly promoted 8) players plus 4 international players! Theoretically , now days clubs that CAN AFFORD can replace entire line up every season!
Well said Biazar jan, agreed! These are some of the points that i believe are the downfall to our football.
I see no sense in the number of transfers allowed, its ridicule that each and every year we see such recycling and the cycle is continuos, the idiotic sense that our clubs have in their mind is "if your not successful just replace the whole team"
I mean, every year, Persepolis, Esteghlal all make a minimum of 5-6 wholesale changes to their team, if not more! where is the sense in that? I wish we could change the rule to a even stricter rule, a maximum of 3 signings by every IPL team a season.
& your right, there are many things in Iran that have been killed, we killed off one of Iran's finest clubs, a club that was the example of how clubs in Iran should be run, Pas Tehran. Pas Tehran, like Sepahan was an example of the closest thing we came to a professional atmosphere. As a Persepolis supporter, i look at my team, and i think to myself, when was the LAST time we even introduced someone from our youth academy that managed to even get a fair chance in the team and make a name for himself. We rarely give our youth players a chance, let alone produce any decent talents. Instead, like you said, our so called chairmans are busy wasting millions and millions on players that will just be sold out again next season..
Whats ironic is that we dont even BUY the better talents in Iran, instead we waste money on washed up over aged players and expect short team success (which we dont even get).
Your examples of our players joining Europe are exactly of what i read over and over in the Iranian media during this recent transfer market, i am sure Iran would at least export 3 to 4 players every season to Europe if the mindset of our players were different, the generation we currently have is pathetic, they have no goals, they have no motivation.
I think it was Mes Kerman, leading up to this season, they had a friendly with a russian club and the russian club was very interested in 2 of their players by the sounds of the report, contact was even made to sign these 2 players. But they were turned down. Im sure our players were too good to live or to start off in Russia, mind you this was a very small club, pretty sure they were in the top division though but probably one of the lower tier clubs. All in all, goes to show you that i think our players are sitting there waiting for Inter, Bayern or Barcelona to come calling, otherwise they dont even want to work for their own progress..
Khalatbari & FC Koln, this was a genuine transfer right before he made his move to Qatar, i even recall Koln offering Zobahan $400.000 for a transfer fee, the Iranian greed kicked in, the offer was turned down because Zobahan wanted more, and FC Koln didnt want to pay more seeing he was in his last year of contract. The deal died, & season after Khalatbari left on a
free to join Qatar.
I remember the days when Fajr Sepasi sent 3 of their players to Admira Wacker, and Amin Motevaselzadeh was one that shined even if it was in the league's second division, he scored 12 goals or something in 17 appearances and even attracted interest from some of the clubs in the top tier. We were all waiting for him to continue his progress in Europe, instead he returned home as soon as the big money offer came in from Pegah Gilan. Quickly jumping at the money instead of focusing on his own progress as a player he returned to Iran.
THE ONLY case that i have seen that have stood out for me, of a Iranian player wanting to improve, showing somewhat of a motivation to improve as a player has been Haghighi, making the move to Russia when i am sure he could of easily stayed in Iran and got a fat paycheck being lazy and working 10 times less then what he has to in Russia.
If only that sort of mentality lived within all our players, that moving to Europe and working hard and moving yourself up gradually even from a lower tier league, or as a bench player. I am sure Iran would be up there with the number of European based players that Japan and South Korea currently boost to have.
Difference with us and Japan and why they have leapfrogged light years ahead of us, many of their players would JUMP at the chance to play in Dutch, German or even Romanian second division leagues...While our players, well, its all about the pay cheque for our players. The love for the game is out of the window, has been for quite some time now.
Nekounam is another one, i dont care what people say! This guy's head is all about money, as soon as talks occurred of
salary reduction he suddenly became "home sick". So what he served in Europe for 6 years, this guy was 31, was playing some brilliant football last season, witnessed his best season with Osasuna in terms of pushing for Europe and finishing high on the ladder, he could have easily continued in Spain and Osasuna but instead AS SOON as reduction came into place, he jumped at the chance to return home to Esteghlal, where he could pick up a fat pay cheque doing 20% of the work he did in Osasuna, home sick my ass.
Same ugly excuse Kaebi used when he was in Leicester, he wasn't even there for a year and he was complaining, just cause he was playing in England's second division and was being benched, he gave up and wanted to return home straight away. What a bunch of bache nanehs we have in our football. Give up at the sight of the first hurdle that life throws at you. Im sure if Kagawa gave up at the first hurdle he wouldn't be playing in Man Utd right now, this guy was playing in Japan's 2nd division 3 seasons ago, if he too was all about money at first, he would never be in Man Utd right now, money comes with hard work. Our players need to understand, you can earn 10x what you earn in Persepolis, if your willing to do a bit of hard work. Honda, same thing, started in the 2nd division of Netherlands. Kawashima played his first 2 seasons with a relegation struggling side, worked hard and got on the radar of the likes of AC Milan.
WHEN A 16 year old PLAYER from Japan's high school can get up and leave and go to Europe to improve and not become
"home sick" then
KHAKE ALAM TO SARE MA, that we actually hope for anything positive to come out of this Iranian GOH that we call football.
I could go on and on about how i
KNOW our players are lazy. Baba the mentality isn't there. The only light at the end of the tunnel that we have is if Queiroz invites EVERY single half strutting European based player that is able to play for Iran and start them. So our players in Iran understands, that you know what, even a half philipino Iranian based in Swedens 2nd division is more sought after in the eyes of a manager like Queiroz then you. No wonder he is killing himself to attract every player who has an ounce of Iranian heritage to Team Melli..
I wish some of our current players learn a little bit, just a tiny bit from the likes of Hashemian, Mahdavikia, Rezaei & even Shojaei.
EVEN Shojaei who so many people bag, took the chance, took a plunge into going to Europe and he worked hard, first season he wasn't a regular but slowly implemented himself into Osasuna.
I feel sick to my stomach when i see players like Ansarifard turning down genuine offers from decent European clubs to play in Persepolis, in all honesty i loose respect even for these players when they play for the club i cherish so much. Ansarifard is so koon goshad he didnt want to work to become a better player, why should he when he gets paid twice as much, and is in the spot light in Tehran, who cares about progress right. And this guy actually dares putting himself in the same sentence as Ali Daei, sorry but vaghean our players are full of k-0ss o sher.