My stance on the TM coaching issue is this:
Amir Ghalehnoyi or any other Iranian coach for that matter, is not a suitable long term solution for TM. Why? Simple:
Coaching, just like many other things is like an industry. Europe is far more advanced than us in the football industry and coaching, so naturally their coaches are better than ours. This is no shame. Look at Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia and even Australia. They also have a similar situation. Despite enormous advances in their football, they still make use of foreign coaches because they know foreign coaches still have more to teach and give compared to their demostic counterparts.
I also strongly oppose those who say we MUST train top domestic coaches alongside a good league and football. This is not a must. Coaches are just like tools: like balls, nets, pitches. They can be imported and used to improve our football. One should not neccessarily build them from scratch.
After the world cup, political and emotional forces joined to create a strong hatred for Dadkan, Branko and foreign coaches. The result was appointing Ghalehnoyi, the recent winner of the domestic league as the coach.
Here are the reasons why I think Ghalehnoyi just like other recent Iranian TM coaches will fail:
We all know that Ghalenoyi is the charismatic coach. He is the coach who everyone sees and is apparently in charge. He is the young, x-player, popular coach. He is like Klinsmann or Van-Basten. But Klinsmann and Van Basten didnt do the real work. There were other people in the background doing the analyzing, thinking, planning, training.
But now, our main master-mind is just a coach who only has 4 years of club coaching experience. And the stranger thing is his dreadful staff:
Nasser Ebrahimi who was about to become a taxi driver after he didnt find a job and was sacked by Perspolis. Not even a second division club would want him near their team. He is just about the worst choice for the TM coaching position.
Second assistant is Afshin Peyrovani who does not have a single minute of coching experience. Their goalkeeper coach is an unknown coach who has worked in Estetghlal Ahvaz and is considered as a second rae coach.
Another thing was his list. Nobody invites 40 players to a NT camp anymore. It is obvious he did it just to make people happy and his 22 player selection is already decided.
And some of the players he invited are questionable to say the least, like: Fekri, Bagheri, Badamaki, Ghorbani, Mirzapor, Abbasfard, KAzemi, Bakhtiyarizadeh etc. who are either average IPL players or are too old to be invested on.
And then we see the absence of players like Zandi, Samereh, Pashazadeh, Hosseini, Jamshidi etc.
Obviously Zandi wont play anymore for TM because the new people in charge dont like him and consider him as a mistake of Dadkan and Branko.
Anyway my prediction is that this will be the most ALI ASGHARI TM in recent years. We were moving towards a professional and world class football but now we have gone back to a ALI PARVINI style of coaching and management again.
Remember what happened with Shahrokhi. He was also a league winner and had more experience than Ghalehnoyi. Our TM was a disaster when he was in charge.
Khoda Be Kheyr Kone!
Amir Ghalehnoyi or any other Iranian coach for that matter, is not a suitable long term solution for TM. Why? Simple:
Coaching, just like many other things is like an industry. Europe is far more advanced than us in the football industry and coaching, so naturally their coaches are better than ours. This is no shame. Look at Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia and even Australia. They also have a similar situation. Despite enormous advances in their football, they still make use of foreign coaches because they know foreign coaches still have more to teach and give compared to their demostic counterparts.
I also strongly oppose those who say we MUST train top domestic coaches alongside a good league and football. This is not a must. Coaches are just like tools: like balls, nets, pitches. They can be imported and used to improve our football. One should not neccessarily build them from scratch.
After the world cup, political and emotional forces joined to create a strong hatred for Dadkan, Branko and foreign coaches. The result was appointing Ghalehnoyi, the recent winner of the domestic league as the coach.
Here are the reasons why I think Ghalehnoyi just like other recent Iranian TM coaches will fail:
We all know that Ghalenoyi is the charismatic coach. He is the coach who everyone sees and is apparently in charge. He is the young, x-player, popular coach. He is like Klinsmann or Van-Basten. But Klinsmann and Van Basten didnt do the real work. There were other people in the background doing the analyzing, thinking, planning, training.
But now, our main master-mind is just a coach who only has 4 years of club coaching experience. And the stranger thing is his dreadful staff:
Nasser Ebrahimi who was about to become a taxi driver after he didnt find a job and was sacked by Perspolis. Not even a second division club would want him near their team. He is just about the worst choice for the TM coaching position.
Second assistant is Afshin Peyrovani who does not have a single minute of coching experience. Their goalkeeper coach is an unknown coach who has worked in Estetghlal Ahvaz and is considered as a second rae coach.
Another thing was his list. Nobody invites 40 players to a NT camp anymore. It is obvious he did it just to make people happy and his 22 player selection is already decided.
And some of the players he invited are questionable to say the least, like: Fekri, Bagheri, Badamaki, Ghorbani, Mirzapor, Abbasfard, KAzemi, Bakhtiyarizadeh etc. who are either average IPL players or are too old to be invested on.
And then we see the absence of players like Zandi, Samereh, Pashazadeh, Hosseini, Jamshidi etc.
Obviously Zandi wont play anymore for TM because the new people in charge dont like him and consider him as a mistake of Dadkan and Branko.
Anyway my prediction is that this will be the most ALI ASGHARI TM in recent years. We were moving towards a professional and world class football but now we have gone back to a ALI PARVINI style of coaching and management again.
Remember what happened with Shahrokhi. He was also a league winner and had more experience than Ghalehnoyi. Our TM was a disaster when he was in charge.
Khoda Be Kheyr Kone!
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