Once again we performed below expectations in a major football tournament. We need to look back and at least learn a lesson from the experience, otherwise, we are doomed to repeat the same fate. Here is the lessons that I learned:
1. Football is rocket-science if not more complicated than that. In fact there are lots of Korean and Japanese (even Iranian) rocket-scientists in the world, but when it comes to football, they hire foreigners and pay them significant amount of money to manage their national teams. Football is a technique that you either learn it through research, (ie building a powerful domestic football league so that the coaches in the league can experiment and develop new techniques and ideas) or you simply have to import the knowledge from outside. You cannot send a coach to a training class for a month and expect him to learn the whole idea. It takes years and decades, just like if you want to train an expert in, say, mobile communications.
If we accept this fact, it will definitely affect the way we, as amateurs, talk and criticize the coach's decisions. Professional coaching is a very complicated profession which needs extensive knowledge and experience. You come across strange comments from even some mature people in this forum that "even I can do better than the TM coach". Or some think by just replacing, say, Nosrati and Daei by two other players the problems of the team will be solved.
2. Old generation Iranian football coaches do not have enough football knowledge to lead our TM to success. Martin-reza brought up an interesting fact: non of the four semi-finalists in the Asian Cup are using domestic coaches. It just shows that the big asian teams have come to conclusion that they need to import the football knowledge from outside, as they have not had the history and means to train good domestic coaches. For Iran, I think it will change after our legionnaires start their coaching career.
1. Football is rocket-science if not more complicated than that. In fact there are lots of Korean and Japanese (even Iranian) rocket-scientists in the world, but when it comes to football, they hire foreigners and pay them significant amount of money to manage their national teams. Football is a technique that you either learn it through research, (ie building a powerful domestic football league so that the coaches in the league can experiment and develop new techniques and ideas) or you simply have to import the knowledge from outside. You cannot send a coach to a training class for a month and expect him to learn the whole idea. It takes years and decades, just like if you want to train an expert in, say, mobile communications.
If we accept this fact, it will definitely affect the way we, as amateurs, talk and criticize the coach's decisions. Professional coaching is a very complicated profession which needs extensive knowledge and experience. You come across strange comments from even some mature people in this forum that "even I can do better than the TM coach". Or some think by just replacing, say, Nosrati and Daei by two other players the problems of the team will be solved.
2. Old generation Iranian football coaches do not have enough football knowledge to lead our TM to success. Martin-reza brought up an interesting fact: non of the four semi-finalists in the Asian Cup are using domestic coaches. It just shows that the big asian teams have come to conclusion that they need to import the football knowledge from outside, as they have not had the history and means to train good domestic coaches. For Iran, I think it will change after our legionnaires start their coaching career.
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