The guy was the top scorer of Greece league up to the last week of the competition. He scored few amazing P.K during the season.
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Yup. VAR is now just another tool for FIFA to insure hat they get the results they want. Most of the Football pundits agree with what you wrote and some of them go further by blatantly accusing FIFA of interfering to get the right outcome. Everyone agrees that Ronaldo shuld have been sent off. No question. I cannot believe that the referee looks at it and then comes up with a yellow. I think he was too embarrassed not to give a card and at the same time did not want to eliminate the world's best player from WC.
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To be fair we wouldn't have gotten the review and the penalty if it wasn't for the show that Taremi put together. We only got VAR because Taremi continued to be in the Ref's face 
But that was a chance he should not have missed. He would have become the biggest football hero in Iranian history overnight!!
But that was a chance he should not have missed. He would have become the biggest football hero in Iranian history overnight!!
Keep your heads up. Have a drink or two and cherish this for years to come. Bacheha mochakerim, carlos dooset darim, staff eyval hamtoon!
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I fucking hate VAR. I am pretty sure they told the ref to only give yellow to CR. that was clear red. damn bastards... if that was any other player that would have been straight red...
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I can't express how happy I am with Iran, CQ and our boys - yes we don't have a major superstar, otherwise that last second effort would have been a goal, yes Taremi should have scored but wow is all I can say, once again I say this being a player who has played at their level and view the games from a professional players perspective, this Iran team is quite possibly one of the most if not the most organized and strategic team in the world - I can tell you guys this, DO EXPECT Iran to hit even the quarter finals of the next WC, as long as we can KEEP CQ and continue this development - the ONLY thing I disagree with is Gucci not playing, I would have brought him into the game at the 75th minute and perhaps Dejagah as well, I would have brought both of them in, other than that everything was perfect - we were very unlucky here to not knock Portugal out and I can tell you that the entire world respects us beyond what you think, I spoke to my friends tonight, some who play for Ittihad, Toronto FC, Besiktas and Olympiacos and everyone has said the same thing, "Iran is one of the best in class at the moment", we won the respect of the world, solidified ourselves as the best team to ever come out of Asia and essentially created the platform for the future. Going forward you can rest assured you will see a lot more Iran apparel, a lot more proud persians, and a lot more respect for Iranian football. Thank you CQ, thank you boys, how I wish I had not selected Canada, was 12 years younger and could have played for this team myself, had the opportunity years ago and squandered it because politics but I will forever live through these players!
Sad and Happy game.
We missed at least 3 good chances
The ref. was all right, I hate S. American refs, they always get Iran in trouble but he didn't call a hand ball on our player (Ronaldo's free kick was deflected by our player's arm). Then again he didn't award us a penalty and would not even look at the replay. So it was fair ....
I don't think Ronaldo hitting our player in the face was intentional and if it was , it was not a hard hit. I am surprised he got any card.
Anyway
I hope our Keeper grows and gains experience, as I said before he will be 1 of our best ever if not the best...(I cant believe he had greasy gloves early on)!?
He gave the defenders (and whole team) a great amount of confidence
Over All I agree that FIFA is corrupted and does things outside of football and treats Asian and African teams as 2nd class!
I still believe Spain's goal should have been called an off side not ours. Remember Iran vs. Germany (or was it Yugoslavia)? of 98? Daei shot a free kick, went thru Estili's legs the ref called it as "Interference"?! hell this ball hit the player and went in... I mean he flicked the ball in and he looked like was in off side.
This TM suffers from lack of goal scorer really. If for instance we had someone like Hassan Roshan (or even Karimi) today, we would win 3-1 and onto the next level.
We missed at least 3 good chances
The ref. was all right, I hate S. American refs, they always get Iran in trouble but he didn't call a hand ball on our player (Ronaldo's free kick was deflected by our player's arm). Then again he didn't award us a penalty and would not even look at the replay. So it was fair ....
I don't think Ronaldo hitting our player in the face was intentional and if it was , it was not a hard hit. I am surprised he got any card.
Anyway
I hope our Keeper grows and gains experience, as I said before he will be 1 of our best ever if not the best...(I cant believe he had greasy gloves early on)!?
He gave the defenders (and whole team) a great amount of confidence
Over All I agree that FIFA is corrupted and does things outside of football and treats Asian and African teams as 2nd class!
I still believe Spain's goal should have been called an off side not ours. Remember Iran vs. Germany (or was it Yugoslavia)? of 98? Daei shot a free kick, went thru Estili's legs the ref called it as "Interference"?! hell this ball hit the player and went in... I mean he flicked the ball in and he looked like was in off side.
This TM suffers from lack of goal scorer really. If for instance we had someone like Hassan Roshan (or even Karimi) today, we would win 3-1 and onto the next level.
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BTW Whatever happened to Guchi? Was he on the roster ? We really needed a goal scorer and he is the man. (I think he scored a goal in 8 seconds for his club side few years back when I followed football). I saw it, they started the game, his teammate shot the ball up high to the right Guchi controlled the ball and then rand 3 steps and then slammed it into the net with his left foot, I think it was fastest goal ever lol
