I said I believe we can smash Portugal and I recommend we playa 5-3-2, now before you start running your mouth because it seems like you are about to do that, for some reason you want to tell me how you are such a professional soccer player and know tactics inside and out, so go ahead man, please please tell me why I'm wrong, and how I know absolutely nothing and how you are gods gift to football lol Go ahead bro.
Don't reply to people like in immature kid, perhaps ask me why I said that? Half of the Toronto FC team and a lot of players from Ittihad were coached by myself, including players from Besiktas, I'm not a fool bro, and I was a member of this board years before you were, and if I revealed my name all the original members would know who I am, just be cool when you address people, we are all from the same country and here to support our team, I'll never understand why people have to go after someones throat on the internet when they themselves can't really validate their thoughts.
Ingilisa goft fasalakh! Dilmaj nim Sa’at tarjomeh kard akhar saram goft nesfesh yadam raft
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you might have been a pro football player but you are definitely lacking manner and that clearly shows in your posts. why so much anger and profanity?? you know something about the game then ya ali, go ahead and share it with everyone. If I wanted to oppose you I would but I am not and I just asked you a simple question. Because CQ never plays this way, never did and in order to do this, you need very pacey fullbacks.
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you might have been a pro football player but you are definitely lacking manner and that clearly shows in your posts. why so much anger and profanity?? you know something about the game then ya ali, go ahead and share it with everyone. If I wanted to oppose you I would but I am not and I just asked you a simple question. Because CQ never plays this way, never did and in order to do this, you need very pacey fullbacks.
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Yes Sir back then the site name was Persian Gulf soccer and I was pa be toop. In 2002 the forum Crashed and all the join dates reset to Oct 2002 and then I also changed my username. that's why you never see any joined dates older than 2002
the site was born mid or late 97 If not mistaken ..
Yes Sir back then the site name was Persian Gulf soccer and I was pa be toop. In 2002 the forum Crashed and all the join dates reset to Oct 2002 and then I also changed my username. that's why you never see any joined dates older than 2002
the site was born mid or late 97 If not mistaken ..
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Nonetheless, I still firmly believe we will and can beat Portugal, unless for some reason a different team shows up that day, if today's team shows up, we will win. Portugal does not have the discipline Spain does and can be stretched, with respect to CR7, he's getting old, our boys can neutralize him and frustrate him, he gets very easily frustrated, and Pepe in the back is not the player he used to be, we can easily move the ball around him as well, if we play how we played in the second half today the entire game on Monday, we will win and make history, the ball is round and at this point Iran is on par with any world class team in the world, it's no longer the old days where we almost definitely knew we are going to get embarrassed, those days are long gone, times are changing and we now can approach games with the mindset of how well can we beat these teams, not "omg we are done and over with", which is a great feeling, makes you proud to be Iranian.
I just hope the IFF can see the potential and not screw CQ over and start dumping money into our youth level football and development.
I just hope the IFF can see the potential and not screw CQ over and start dumping money into our youth level football and development.
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Thank you for your sobering remarks, but for the same reasons that you mentioned about the difficulty of beating a team full of star players, I am not as confident that Iran will win against Portugal. That said, I think we have a reasonable chance to win. I would be more confident if I knew our players would not be depleted at the beginning of their third match. We will find out on Monday. That was the case in the previous World Cups. CQ has been fully aware of it. That is why he wanted the extra time to physically and mentally prepare his team. The good thing is that CQ has more options with players compared to 2014.
When the World Cup draw happened, I thought a better schedule would be for Iran to play against Portugal in its second match. I still think that would have been better for Iran.
When the World Cup draw happened, I thought a better schedule would be for Iran to play against Portugal in its second match. I still think that would have been better for Iran.
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You now what, I wholeheartedly agree that Portugal would have been a better game for us today, believe me when I say this Iran is an amazing team, we don't have all star names (def some will get pulled to europe after this wc) but our team has good tactics and sticks with it, thank god for CQ, we've come a long way since Mayeli Kohan, Payrovani and Ostad Asadi lol Although I miss Pashazadeh, Zarinche and Mohammadkhani, Nader was a beast in the back, he looked like a chagoo kish lol I would never want to play against a guy that looked like that haha
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.fair enough. Like many, I've played the game but not professionally but after all these years I can say each game carry its own profile. I am so against this statement that because we played well against Team A then we definitely beat Team B and I have thousands of examples. having said that you could be right maybe you see the game differently and HOPE YOU ARE RIGHT, why not ?
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.fair enough. Like many, I've played the game but not professionally but after all these years I can say each game carry its own profile. I am so against this statement that because we played well against Team A then we definitely beat Team B and I have thousands of examples. having said that you could be right maybe you see the game differently and HOPE YOU ARE RIGHT, why not ?
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No no I agree with you, we can't say just because we played well against Spain we will play well against Brazil et al, what I'm saying is if we continue to play the same way we are playing, we will be able to stand up to any team in the world, it's almost impossible to play against better players than we did today, and I say almost because I am biased to La Liga and am a die hard Barcelona fan, however, on paper we won't ever face anything better than today. Spain is such a star studded team it's almost unfair lol
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But keep in mind regardless of being fine players, Spain has no coach, There is no way on this planet Hierro can even give the smallest tip to his players. I guess players did not oppose his appointment just to avoid more turbulence in the camp. Lopetegui was a competent coach, he had this team since 2016. I didn't see Hierro doing anything to change the game after going 0-0 55 min into the match.this team is on its own so let's see how far they can go
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But keep in mind regardless of being fine players, Spain has no coach, There is no way on this planet Hierro can even give the smallest tip to his players. I guess players did not oppose his appointment just to avoid more turbulence in the camp. Lopetegui was a competent coach, he had this team since 2016. I didn't see Hierro doing anything to change the game after going 0-0 55 min into the match.this team is on its own so let's see how far they can go
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Yep agree with that as well, but it wouldn't change their game that much, those players are world class and kinda stick to what they know best, but ya he should have beefed up the midfield, not the front line, if he had beefed the middle up he would have been good. But who do you bring on and for who?
He is 30 man, just like Ebrahimi, both will play in Qatar most likely. Both having hell of tournament so far.
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I believe that beating Portugal is not as simple as some members are talking about here. In fact we are still underdogs big time. We performed well today, but after all after 180 minutes or so, we haven't scored a single goal. In the second goal of Morocco, not a single shot on goal.
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