Korean Football, I have said my view already, and you have said yours. One factual correction though: Olympic <B>qualifying</B> is...
junjunforever, The domination I referred to is of course winning all the tournaments, Asian Cup (3 consecutive times from 1968-1976), Asian...
junjunforever, I am not claiming Iran was "dominant" in the 1996-2000 period. In fact, as much as I hate to say it, if you went just by...
Korean Football, I find your analysis mostly polemical and silly. First, on your point that no one in S.Korea viewed Iran as number one in...
I see some people still debating Iran v. USA!! Iran won a closely contested match in WC98. I guess if Estili's header had hit the cross...
Korean Football, You are obviously entitled to rank the teams as you wish. I didn't use any officially age restricted tournament....
As for Asia before 1972, I didn't talk much about it only because my knowledge about it isn't sufficient. I know Iran won the 1968 Asian Cup,...
Korean Football, The Japan that beat Iran after 120 minutes in Malaysia beat an Iran team that: (a) was in turmoil, with a new coach picked...
Standings for the 1978 Qualifiers: Home-Away format (Country, Wins, Draws, Losses, Points, GD) WCQ for 1978 WC (teams in CAP qualified)...
WuTang, Yes. For the 1978 World Cup, Iran won a unified final qualifying group with a record of 6 wins and 2 draws in a home-away format,...
Bauvafa, Thanks. Lets hope Iran does as well as some hope. We do have talented youngsters, but the crop from 1996-2000 was quite...
This is how I view the Asia's best teams through the years. What do you think? The Best in Each Era 1972 -- 1978 IRAN: winner of 3...
Iranian fans often show great respect to S.Korea's football team. In that regard, I am an exception among our fans, as I give South Korea its...
The team called "Iran" in this tournament is a 2nd division club in Iran called Malavan. Although the AFC was insisting that Iran send its U23...
S.Korea's consistent track-record in qualifying for the World Cup has given rise to a false and misleading picture of their overall consistency...
Wu Tang and Korean Football, Thanks for the responses regarding your team. Iran's Olympic team has not had any preparatory matches. The...
I am glad the New Zealand soccer officials found their trip to Iran beneficial and accomodating. The game itself was kind of lacadasical,...
WuTang, Many of the players are from the gold medal team in Busan, and quite a few of them are being capped regularly for the senior team these...
Iran is the one team that always (I mean always) gets a bad draw. Each time we have to end up in the so-called "Group of Death". It is nothing...
Although both sides fielded decent teams, with Cameroon using the tournament as a warm up for the upcoming African Nations Cup, Iran were without...
According to IRNA (Iran's official news agency), the AFC has invited Iran, Japan, and S.Korea to represent Asia in a tournament to be held in...
The top countries in Asian football have 2 representatives in the AFC Champions League: their league winners and their Cup winners. I assume...
Al Hilal beat my favorite club, Esteghlal, 3:2. Esteghlal were ahead 1:0, Al Hilal tied it 1:1, Esteghlal took the lead 2:1, late in the game...
Thailand's BEC Tero Sasana defeat Korea's Taejon Citizen 2-0 to go top of Group A! Although the Thai club are hosting, that is nonetheless a...
Perspolis is physically a very strong side. However, it is an aging unit, otherwise devoid of much stand out talent. It has been struggling so...