Amoo Manook is also an idiot.
Pico?!
We never lost to East Asia this bad? beg to differ, how about 1988 AC 3-0 loss to Korea?
I did not see the game ....but I can say ...
Yes and also another 3-0 to korea in 1994 WC qualifiers … I listened to few minutes of his bullshit talk and stopped ,why the hell do you have to mix everything to politics .
The fact is even if we had beaten Japan and won the cup in the final it wouldn't prove anything … few happy days and congrats and street parties but same old shitty football industry and leagues and vermin infested mafia in football ,sick to the bone .
We are not the best football nation in Asia ,we are years behind japan ,korea, Australia ,China and dare say even Qatar but even in our darkest hour we can be a handful to any of them .
Carlos Q is gone , good or bad ,time will tell ……...I didn't approve of everything he did with tactics and players selection and his controversial interviews during the competition but he did a lot of good , trusting youngsters and blending them into the team ,dicipline and organised football and unity among the squad players .
When do you remember that senior players such a Shojaei ,Montazeri sit quietly on the bench and support the team with no side issues ,or a player like Teymourian so quietly left out and not a single bad word or reaction .
He made them believe that no player is bigger than the team ,that was a big achievement in our sick football ,something that the football agents and mafia delegates didn't like .