There has been pages written about how Ghotbi was "Spineless", "Gutless", etc especially during the south Korea game. I found out about this a few days ago and wanted to share it with you which contradicts the claims he was "Spineless" etc.
There is a very high probability that what I share with you is true, Javad Nekoonam even hinted at Ghotbi saying something impolite to the players during the half time.
According to the rumors during the half time of Iran South Korea game, Ghtobi asks players something along the line of
"Chera mesle Khar tooye Gel moondeed". Javad Nekooname didn't mention this sentence specifically but claimed Ghotbi said something impolite, Sayed Jalal Hosseini and Aghili verified Nekoonam's claim as well.
To me this shows that performance of the players during the first half was a disappointment to Ghotbi as well and he was as surprised by the poor performance of the Iranian players. Had Ghotbi sent the team to defend the whole game he wouldn't have said something like this.
To further support my theory, If you read the interview of the players who were critics of the Ghtobi (Khalatbari, Hosseini, Nekoonam) all claimed Ghotbi had given them specific duties and enforced that they follow the system. Khatbari claimed he wasn't supposed to get the ball and dribble his direct defender even. So if players were given direct duties and was expected to follow them , and then Ghotbi comes and says something like that, one can conclude, Ghotbi hadn't given purely defensive duties to the players. One still can argue that duties weren't the right ones, but this thread isn't about that.
To me the mere facts that Ghotbi told them "Chera mesle khar tooye Gel moondeed", suggest Ghotbi had expected something else.
This post isn't to defend Ghotbi or open the can of worms again, it is a mere data point that strongly suggests, Ghotbi assigned duties and expectation from the players was very different from what he saw during the first half and hence this comment. If you read the Ghotbi's interview after the game where he said he had to change 6-7 players to change the game flow, one can realize how disappointed he (like many of us) had been with the performance of the team. This in part Ghotbi's fault as well, I don't deny that, but calling him "Gutless" "Spineless" based on this event maybe is unfair.
There is a very high probability that what I share with you is true, Javad Nekoonam even hinted at Ghotbi saying something impolite to the players during the half time.
According to the rumors during the half time of Iran South Korea game, Ghtobi asks players something along the line of
"Chera mesle Khar tooye Gel moondeed". Javad Nekooname didn't mention this sentence specifically but claimed Ghotbi said something impolite, Sayed Jalal Hosseini and Aghili verified Nekoonam's claim as well.
To me this shows that performance of the players during the first half was a disappointment to Ghotbi as well and he was as surprised by the poor performance of the Iranian players. Had Ghotbi sent the team to defend the whole game he wouldn't have said something like this.
To further support my theory, If you read the interview of the players who were critics of the Ghtobi (Khalatbari, Hosseini, Nekoonam) all claimed Ghotbi had given them specific duties and enforced that they follow the system. Khatbari claimed he wasn't supposed to get the ball and dribble his direct defender even. So if players were given direct duties and was expected to follow them , and then Ghotbi comes and says something like that, one can conclude, Ghotbi hadn't given purely defensive duties to the players. One still can argue that duties weren't the right ones, but this thread isn't about that.
To me the mere facts that Ghotbi told them "Chera mesle khar tooye Gel moondeed", suggest Ghotbi had expected something else.
This post isn't to defend Ghotbi or open the can of worms again, it is a mere data point that strongly suggests, Ghotbi assigned duties and expectation from the players was very different from what he saw during the first half and hence this comment. If you read the Ghotbi's interview after the game where he said he had to change 6-7 players to change the game flow, one can realize how disappointed he (like many of us) had been with the performance of the team. This in part Ghotbi's fault as well, I don't deny that, but calling him "Gutless" "Spineless" based on this event maybe is unfair.
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