Reguard UEFA football, Daei played for Bayern and Hertha. He scored twice against Chelsea and also scored against AC Milan?
Am I a Daei fan? No. You can either be Daei fan or Karimi fan.
I have always been Karimi fan, but having said that, Ali Daei scored against any one Iran faced. It isn't realy his fault Iran didn't met bigger teams.
Here is the list of countries Daei scored against.
Bahrain - Bosnia - Canada - Chin Taipe - Costa Rica - Equador - Egypt - Guam - Iraq - Japan - Jordan - Kuwait - Kyrgyzstan - Laos - Lebanon - Lybia - Macedonia - Maldives - Mexico - Nepal - North Korea - Oman - Panama - Paraguay - Qatar - Saudi - South Korea - Sri Lanka - Syria - Tajikestan - Togo - Ukraine - United Arab Emirates - Uzbekistan
Brando aziz
Daei was a good servant for Iran till 2001but has a Padded record and was eager to play every match even against crap teams can’t remember him rested, abit of a greedy morde khor up front on his own and was the reason in his time we struggled to produce another decent international forward till Hashemian came along I can remember Daei missing a match and that was against Portugal in WC2006(dropped imo), i think Mayeli Kohan dropped him once as well but not sure about that but they had some kind of dispute . Let’s talk facts
I just scanned through his record
Goals against v.poor Asian teams:
8 goals vs Laos(3 matches)
8 goals vs Maldives(4 matches)
6 goals vs Lebanon(were garbage at the time)
5 goals v Chinese Taipa
5 goals vs Nepal
5 goals vs Sri Lanka(1 match)
5 goals vs Lebanon
4 goals vs Guam(1 match)
3 goals vs Tajikistan
1 kyrkizistan
That’s 50 fucking goals . 50 goals against utter shit teams in handful of matches... come on guys
LooooL
Now let’s look at some of those mighty non Asian teams he scored against, based on FACTS:
1 Bosnia : in 2001 they weren’t very good didn’t have Pjanic Dzeko or Vidad Ibisivic did they? their ranking was outside top 100
2 Canada: LoL
3 Ecuador : In 2000 they had never qualified for a WC not very good at the time also I remember then playing Iran with mostly Youth players. Even now they only rely on home matches in a very high Altitude that’s how they qualify nowadays FACT!!!
4 Mexico : A very nice pen kick in a friendly match I can still remember it.
5 Panama:In 2004 they had never came close to qualifying for any WC not a good team. 2018 WC is their First.
Memorable matches + Goals against Good teams:
I give him credit where it’s due
4 Goals against South Korea in96 his best performance ever that long range shot was amazing. He was unstoppable that day and made the Korean manger Cry.
2 Good goals against Saudi at home 2002 WC qualifier. A few good goals vs Japan
including the header in the 98 play off
Incredible header against powerful Egypt
And of course that tap in goal against Ukraine.