Iran-Japan-Vietnam-KSA advanced to U20 WC 2017 in south Korea. So far our U16 and U19 teams have qualified for WC and if our senior team also qualifies for WC 2018 we will have a good campaign both in youth and senior levels. Iran and Japan both have qualified for U17 and U20 world cups. Hard luck Iraq and Uzbekistan. Now, It is time for us to shine in all levels along the Japanese. I just regret our U23 didn't have a proper coach and was ruined along the way to prove this point once again that Mr. Mayeli and his friends don't know anything about modern football. Imagine the team with a good coach like CQ and players like Azmoun, JB, Ezatollahi, Milmo and other Iranian talents, they could do wonders in Olympic games.
South Korea, Japan and Saudi Arabia have reached the knockout stage round of the ongoing U-20 WC. Congratulations. The three made Asia proud. Iran was disappointing on the world stage as usual, finishing bottom in their group. Vietnam struggled too but qualifying for the WC was already a big achievement for them. I hope this lesson will help the future of the Vietnamese football. Good luck.
Lame attempt at trolling , where were Saudi Arabia , Korea and Japan earlier in the year when Iran finished 3rd in both beach soccer world cup and futsal world cup? Iran is a country of men not boys we don't take Micky mouse tournaments seriously that's why we're good at wrestling and weightlifting not womens figure skating.
Just ignore this troll. He is a sock puppet and well-known for trolling Iran related topics. He has an inferiority complex. We don't need to justify anything for these nobodies. Why should we care about them. They keep trying to troll us and unfortunately our Iranian members keep fall for it. Look at Korean members compeletely ignoring these random trolls. Japanese did the same. Even Saudis don't give a penny to these trolls. Why Iranians should give a damn?! kooneshon bad joori sookhte. ahamiat nadadan be inha az fohsh ham badtare barashoon. Cheers. Amade beshin baraye soud be jam jahani do hafteye dige.
So Japan is out and the same Portugal that was struggling all game against Iran and only got lucky to get away with a last minute own goal against Iran cruised past Korea and knocks them out at home. Saudi will also get knocked out by Uruguay n Vietnam is not even worth mentioning yet this troll only thinks Iran "disgraced" Asia while missing some.key players like karmachalab who was not released by perspolis n even the captain noorafkan only joined the unprepared team a day before start of the tournament after esteghlal finally released him.
And don't forget obviously Zambia is over-20. Iran would have made it to the round of 16 easily if it wasn't for their ugly cheating.
That's why I can't take this youth tournaments seriously. Look how good Ghana and Iraq performed at the u20 world cup 2013. Both went to semi finals but where are they now? Where are these so-called talents?
Some of them are playing for European clubs now, and they made the 2015 Asian Cup semis (at the expense of Iran) Don't try to ridicule us if you clearly don't know what you're talking about.
lol I'm not trying to ridicule you but these are the examples that were on my mind. I also mentioned Ghana. The thing is that your team is in an absolute mess right now. You always perform in youth tournaments but are not even able to qualify for the world cup. Should I remind you that you are 5th in your group and already eliminated?
A famous Iraqi blogger mentioned how many overage players they used in their youth teams. His name was Hasanain or something like that. Even Iraqi members here shared documents showing the names, DOBs, and passport numbers of Iraqi national team members that was playing against Syria in a friendly match in Tehran. You could see obviously they had cheated on their birth days. DOB of Younes Mahmoud is recorded as 1983 in his fifa related documents but his passport shows 1979. Younes was a part of Iraqi U21 and U23 national team in 2002-2004 which means he was obviously overage and not to be allowed in those competition. I wonder how many other Iraqi players done that in the past. All achievement of Iraqi youth level in those days are questionable. People who cheat on their age usually give up football in their late 20s or early 30s. Rarely players can keep up with the age. Younes was relatively good at 37 in AC 2015 but not other Iraqi overage players. Nigeria was also involved in age cheating in 90s and early 2000s in youth level. Their own coaches came forward and admitted to this harmful practice. At the end it is their national team that get the impact. They may be happy at youth level but they never see the light of real glory in WC.
The problem here with you is that you are trying to put the blame on all Iraqis for things that the football federation is commiting. Yes, the youth teams in Iraq were using overaged players in the past (and maybe even now, I don't have all the birth certificates). They started this under the Baath regime of Saddam to portrait a false image of youth success.. Most of the Iraqis here condemn it, so I don't understand why you are mentioning it as if we made the decision. Or should I blame all Iranians now for Hossein Kaebi, who played for Iran's youth teams and later also admitted that he is overaged?
Hussein Kaaebi is a great Arab-Iranian player from near Iraqi border. We like him as our football player but all Iranians pick on him even on our sport TV program for his demeanor. He had altered his birth certification himself not our football association. It is considered as a rare case which everyone is against but it is more common in Iraq while iraqi football association made or makes blind eye on. And people come and glorify those youth teams knowing the problem instead of fighting with it. There is difference right there. Iraq has football talent but instead of cheating on age they need to invest more on youth level. It takes 5-10 years but at the end all of your teams from club level to national teams will be strong. Iran has corruption in football just like Iraq but we deal with age problem at least pretty firm.
You didnt answer my question: What can I (or other Iraqis) do about the fact that our FA is insanely stupid and accepting these kind of things? A lot of the Iraqi fans know about this, and are speaking out. And don't judge unless you have evidence. The fact that we used overaged players in the past doesn't necessarily mean that it still happens today.
Put tremendous pressure on your FA through fans, forum and media. Don't cheer when you get result with overage players. Show that you care for investment in youth level and long term development. Hasananin was posting about 2016 Olympic team having overage players too.
Im just an individual, I can't talk on behalf of all Iraqis, so again: What can I (or other Iraqis) do about the fact that our FA is insanely stupid and accepting these kind of things? There are developments going on in Iraq regarding age fraud. These practices are getting exposed in the media, players and coaches are criticizing it, and recently our new U17 coach declared that he is going to create an age-fraud free generation of players. At the Olympics we had a bunch of the 2013 U20 players and they were most likely overaged unfortunately. But from that 18-man squad the following 12 players were eligible: Fahad Talib Ahmad Ibrahim Hawbir Mustafa Ali Faez Hammadi Ahmad Mahdi Kamil Ali Husni Humam Tariq Sherko Karim Saad Abdul-Amir Alaa Mhawi Amjad Attwan So there is still a lot of work to do, but it's a start.
Please go to BigFutsal or BigBeachsoccer if you want to discuss futsal and beach soccer. Unfortunately, wrestling and weightlifting are considered mickey mouse sports in the world. To be honest, Iran is irrelevant in major medal events. Number of male athletes from Asia who won a medal in group A & B sports in Rio. Japan Swimming (A) x5 Athletics (A) x2 Gymnastics (A) x3 Tennis (B) x1 China Swimming (A) x4 Athletics (A) x3 Gymnastics (A)x3 Qatar Athletics (A) x1 Australia Swimming (A) x5 Athletics (A) x2 Cycling (B) x1 Singapore Swimming (A) x1 Iran won 0, while a tiny country like Singapore produced a gold medalist in a major event like swimming.
Being eliminated in the round of 16 is better than finishing last in group stage. End of story. Be a good loser and respect Zambia, please.
If you go to fifa.com whenever there's a futsal or beach soccer world cup going on it's always the top story there are also many threads dedicated to futsal and beach soccer hence making it all fall under the category of soccer, Iran is good in every form of soccer even the 5 aside and 7aside paraolymoics ones and the robots world cup what can I say. As for the Olympics wtf is "A" and "B" and what part of your ass are you pulling that from? Weightlifting and wrestling are two of the original Olympic sports from ancient times not tennis and cycling! Even at the end of the Olympics they say for example the strongest men are from Iran referring to the weightlifting heavy weight gold medal and the fastest are the Jamaicans, being strong has always been the most important and fast the second since ancient times. Nobody cares who can peddle the fastest you tool.
These are not even Olympic sports. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_sports#Classification_of_Olympic_sports_for_revenue_share By the way, wrestling was almost removed from the Olympics due to low attendance, poor television ratings, and general lack of popularity. Cycling is big in Europe. Have you ever heard of Tour de France?