anyone who has spent with Karimi more than 5 minutes and knows him apart of him being a football player, will tell you that there's no one in Iranian football more of a man than he is.
2001 in Ireland, ISP correspodent (he was a medical doctor) spent time to interview some players in the hotel Burlington. Karimi refused to talk and was very arrogant to ISP members. I have to admit Daei was at that time not better.
You should ask some younger and less succesful Iranian players and how he always looked out for them. If you still don't believe it, then ask yourself why there's not a single Iranian player, except for Daei, who ever had beef with Karimi.
A young diligent ISP report flow over to Germany to interview Karimi after CL match. Karimi refused to talk to him. This shows his arrogant character. Actually Munich won that day CL match but Karimi didnt play. There was no reason to do such action. I went once to a bundesliga clash to interview Vahid and Mehdi after the match. I was worried that they will not spent time. Both invited me to spent time in the restaurant. by the way Vahid wasnt even on the bench. Even having such bad time both spent time and answered all ISP questions. This shows strong personalities.
And if all of that is still not enough, please try to get a copy of South Korea-Iran and see who the man is.
WC 2006 he refused to get into the match as he was benched in the first half of the last thrid match. ISP reporters can prove this. We saw when he refused to take action when Branco asked him to come in. This again shows how far he is from professionalism.
As far as this is concerned
a) WTF is esteel azin? Is this even a club? Do they actually have fans?
Steel Azin is the sample of Hoffenheim in Germany. You beloved Ali Parvin and his friend in Mashad is spending time and money to built a new strong IPL team. I can imagine Steel winning IPL this year.
b) Whatever Karimi wants to do, for the reasons above, it's more than just alright.
This show your disrespect toward beloved Iran football fans who want to see designated players standing behind their team and ask players acting professionally. By the way 10 years ago Karimi was banned for a year for kicking a ref.
Karimi has totally failed as a professional player even though he has the greatest skills an Iran football player ever had.
He got an offer from Wolfsburg after he wasnt successful at bayern and play another season in Germany. That year Wolfsburg was going for the championship. Instead, he went to GulfState and lost big time. He made more money but come on a player like should refuse such dirty salary when you can play another year in Europe.
I have to thank him to have the green color out when we played our last match against Japan. This is my total respect towards him. I have to thank him that during his time in Germany he acted professionally as German media never talk bad about him.
Nevertheless he had big chances during his career to shine much more and better than where he is right now.