I just finished watching Mr. Daie's interview in Navad (before the North Korea game). I was totally surprized (in a good way). He was calm, logical, non confrontational a marked improvement. I was so impressed with his attitude toward the Karimi's action. Kudos to Mr. Daie. Specially just two days ago, his remarkes toward Karimi's issue was totally different.
Couple of great things I heard during the interview was Mr. Daie himself at a very high level talked about the shortcomings of our team in the KSA -Iran game. I was so happy when he said something (not literally of course) that the TM performance against KSA was only 60% (he mentioned 60% though). I am so glad he has high expectations, (doesn't think this is our Bezzat). He talked about our defensive shortcomings as well.
Wish those who unconditionally are supporter of Mr. Daie follow his approach and attitude (I am sure you know you can watch the interview on Glwiz.com for yourself).
Another piece of good news was Daie's and GN met and made mends in SS vs. Bargh game supposedly. This is a good news. The less side issues around TM, the better. I don't think GN is god or anything and it isn't like he can help Daie coaching wise, but as the Farsi quote goes " 1000 friends isn't enough and one enemy is way too many"
The only worrisome piece of news was, I finished watching South Korea, UAE game. OMG. This South Korea team was night and day compared to the team that played against North Korea. They demolished UAE 4-1 and game could have easily been 7-0. Many of you may think UAE is weak and all. Let's don't forget UAE tied us in Tehran and they totally outplayed us after falling behind 1-0 in the WC third qaulification round. Even the week before this game, UAE tied Japan 1-1 I think. So UAE is'nt a push over. The only goal of UAE was a super stupid mistake by the Koran defender who gave up the ball (tried to dribble the ball close to their 18 yard box). Without any Iranian exageration, Koran goalie maybe touched the ball less than 10 times if that during the whole game. Second half less than 2-3 times. But maybe this isn't as important in our qualification battle. Even if we loose both games to South Korea, Iran got a good result against KSA in Jaddah and a victory against North Korea, and UAE is out of it. Bottom line I take the second spot in the group any day behid South Korea.
Couple of great things I heard during the interview was Mr. Daie himself at a very high level talked about the shortcomings of our team in the KSA -Iran game. I was so happy when he said something (not literally of course) that the TM performance against KSA was only 60% (he mentioned 60% though). I am so glad he has high expectations, (doesn't think this is our Bezzat). He talked about our defensive shortcomings as well.
Wish those who unconditionally are supporter of Mr. Daie follow his approach and attitude (I am sure you know you can watch the interview on Glwiz.com for yourself).
Another piece of good news was Daie's and GN met and made mends in SS vs. Bargh game supposedly. This is a good news. The less side issues around TM, the better. I don't think GN is god or anything and it isn't like he can help Daie coaching wise, but as the Farsi quote goes " 1000 friends isn't enough and one enemy is way too many"
The only worrisome piece of news was, I finished watching South Korea, UAE game. OMG. This South Korea team was night and day compared to the team that played against North Korea. They demolished UAE 4-1 and game could have easily been 7-0. Many of you may think UAE is weak and all. Let's don't forget UAE tied us in Tehran and they totally outplayed us after falling behind 1-0 in the WC third qaulification round. Even the week before this game, UAE tied Japan 1-1 I think. So UAE is'nt a push over. The only goal of UAE was a super stupid mistake by the Koran defender who gave up the ball (tried to dribble the ball close to their 18 yard box). Without any Iranian exageration, Koran goalie maybe touched the ball less than 10 times if that during the whole game. Second half less than 2-3 times. But maybe this isn't as important in our qualification battle. Even if we loose both games to South Korea, Iran got a good result against KSA in Jaddah and a victory against North Korea, and UAE is out of it. Bottom line I take the second spot in the group any day behid South Korea.
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