Branko is the Man !!!

[zzgloo]

I remember ,in an interview,last year, Ferdosipoor asked jalal Talebi a question which very much stayed in my mind .....He asked him, "Don't you think,in the previouse world cup, before the game with Germany, you had the loseing mind set for the game,and you convayed that to the players ? ".....
In an effect, he was so intimidated with GERMANY,that it showed through the game plan,as well as in players' performance..............
This phenomena however,I did not see,when we played a friendly with them with Branko incharge !!
More over, Him being from eastern Europe,and not from wetern Europe,some how has made him to be more understanding of our culture,and his gentle athetude has also made him more accesseble to players and easier to understand.
He has been very open,contrary to what some critics say, and ready to interview at any time with anybody.....He has been objective, and gave chances to all !!, and with his final selection,he indeed takeing with himself, all the best we have to offer.....All in all, he also has had the best result among all previouse head coaches we have had......
He indeed is the man !!!!

[faraz]

lol, zz jan, welcome aboard - this is the stuff we've been saying for a long time now! There should be no one else at the helm of TM at this moment. And to think, some are still pushing for a coaching change???

[khabalood]

He has been objective, and gave chances to all !!, and with his final selection,he indeed takeing with himself, all the best we have to offer.....All in all, he also has had the best result among all previouse head coaches we have had......

I really think you are confusing Branko with somebody else, or you are not following Irani football.

[zzgloo]

I really think you are confusing Branko with somebody else, or you are not following Irani football.

I respect your opinion...may be you can shed some light for me....
whom has he not given a chance to ?
Whom has he not invited to the team,and who should not have been invited ?
Which coach has had better record ?
please, let me know,.....so I could be like you

[Hajagha]

He is paid to do the job. In contrast, no coach in Iran was paid as much as him, so having good result supposedly matches his pay check. Besides, "good result" has a very wide meaning and not many people agrees with what some others call it "good".

All in all, Branko and team Melli benefited from each other (maybe Branko more, don't forget no country would have given their national team to un-proven and blank resume coach), and this doesn't mean they will benefit more from each other. We both (TM and Branko) need a sign of success in upcoming WC to have better coach and also better team for each party.

Let's see what he is doing with some dilemmas in his team. His goal keeping, his left back and the biggest of all, his formation of 4-2-3-1 and Daei up front. Hope, he proves all his critics wrong.

[yashar_fasihnia]

I remember ,in an interview,last year, Ferdosipoor asked jalal Talebi a question which very much stayed in my mind .....He asked him, "Don't you think,in the previouse world cup, before the game with Germany, you had the loseing mind set for the game,and you convayed that to the players ? ".....
In an effect, he was so intimidated with GERMANY,that it showed through the game plan,as well as in players' performance..............
This phenomena however,I did not see,when we played a friendly with them with Branko incharge !!
More over, Him being from eastern Europe,and not from wetern Europe,some how has made him to be more understanding of our culture,and his gentle athetude has also made him more accesseble to players and easier to understand.
He has been very open,contrary to what some critics say, and ready to interview at any time with anybody.....He has been objective, and gave chances to all !!, and with his final selection,he indeed takeing with himself, all the best we have to offer.....All in all, he also has had the best result among all previouse head coaches we have had......
He indeed is the man !!!!

good morning

[Soccer4ever]

I remember ,in an interview,last year, Ferdosipoor asked jalal Talebi a question which very much stayed in my mind .....He asked him, "Don't you think,in the previouse world cup, before the game with Germany, you had the loseing mind set for the game,and you convayed that to the players ? ".....
In an effect, he was so intimidated with GERMANY,that it showed through the game plan,as well as in players' performance..............
This phenomena however,I did not see,when we played a friendly with them with Branko incharge !!
More over, Him being from eastern Europe,and not from wetern Europe,some how has made him to be more understanding of our culture,and his gentle athetude has also made him more accesseble to players and easier to understand.
He has been very open,contrary to what some critics say, and ready to interview at any time with anybody.....He has been objective, and gave chances to all !!, and with his final selection,he indeed takeing with himself, all the best we have to offer.....All in all, he also has had the best result among all previouse head coaches we have had......
He indeed is the man !!!!

Great post indeed.

[Doctor DOOM]

actually zz jan, he is definitely NOT the man.

bacheh hol kardeh from more criticism and lost his head totally !!
talk about jumping from the frying pan into the fire !

6-7 forwards in a team like Iran ?
na be oon shoori-yeh shoor, na be in bi-namaki !!!

it's like he just doesnt know what he wants to do and how he wants to achieve it !!!

daei
enayati
borhani
khatibi
VH
karimi
kazemian
while the last 2 have other utilities such as Midfield , but having 5+2 forwards for a team like ours, especially when we have such disasterous left wing is just obscenely naive and stupid.

instead of one of those forwards ( I'd say borhani, who is just out of form and has been out of form for a long time now ), he shd have kept mani'ee since he , along with madanchi are the ONLY players who can help our diseased left side.

1 :
to top this, for years he has been forcing the team and its attitude towards a defensive philosophy and form.
we all know his tactics, subbing , system, formations, line ups, ... all which supports this.
now this?

his immaturity and unsuitability is brought to the fore again, as he suddenly ( out of nowhere ) wants to put in such a reverse mentality in the team with such high number of attackers ?
( I leave guys like kia, zandi, madanchi, .... aside . mind you )
suddenly, becoz so far he hadnt done so. we havent played such an attack-minded formations and ... , which needs a lot of practice and quite a few friendly games to put it thru' the mill.



2 :
or is it just to keep ppl's mouths shut ?
is it that he will stick to his deficient formation and line up , and the sole purpose of calling some of these players is to keep ppl's mouths shut , and he does not intend to give most of these even a second of game time?
so basically he wasted at least 2-3 spots on players he already KNOWS he is not going to use, whereas he could have called up some useful players who COULD have been helpful to the team?

which is it?
whichever it is, we know he has made such wrong moves and decisions !

"the man" indeed !



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it is just so obvious branko hasnt settled into being a HEAD coach, and still makes wrong decisions !

I wont even talk about why mobaali is not invited coz it appears to be above many ppl's intelligence or sense of priority ( which SHD be TM, and not x or y or ... ).


god help us !!

we can only rely on our lads' gheyrat to get something for us now !!

[Martin-Reza]

It's a big relief to see you disapprove the squad.

[yashar_fasihnia]

doctor jan, i have a question to u,

khodayish rast begu, wat is ur opinion about branko? in terms of a football coach?

cos the way u talk about him, and try to degrade him even when he makes the best possible list, im seriously beginning to feel u consider him not only a football illiterate but stupid and dumb like a 2nd grader!
seriously peyman khan, dont u think if all these stuff can strike us, non football experts minds, it wont strike his?

i really am eager to know how u would rate him? u consider him totally illiterate? or iran's biggest enemy? or just blind, stupid and unaware or wat?

even when branko comes up with the best possible list, u come up with some logic to go against him. now ur saying he has invited 5-7 attacking players to shut ppl up or to play reverse psychology! while just 1 month back u were complaining about him inviting too many "defensive players" and we had another major discussion about that in 2 threads before this!

did it ever occur to u that maybe he really does want them in the list? u know better than anyone that karimi, kazemiyan and even khatibi and borhani are versatile players and can play in different positions, namely both in midfield and in forwards.
and u also do know that most coaches favour versatile players because they can solve multiple problems at the same time.

so why do u have to find some reason or the other to turn branko into a villain?

[The-Red]

all I will say that a team like Iran with as many as talented players we have deserves a world class coach, I do not think Branko is one for us...at this point we will all support him and wish him success.

[zzgloo]

My dear DD,
We hardly have had any new member in our Plus Forum lately, and the same is with the other forums....
the forums have been open to any opinion, and people like you certainly stated thiers...and we all pretty much know who stands where...,and I hope, we all should respect and like each other as we are " COMRADS " on this up-commeing WC...and no matter what,You are my friend,and I admire you,regardless of your opinion.....but, I would like to ask you,to tone-down your criticism now, and let us all go back to critical criticism,after the games..as the law on common sence,emplys to have maturity,and commeradery to wish and pull the best,for our TM,( regardless of its short commeings )..............
We all know, your opinion, and we will not forget it....and if you stop the harsh language now, only untill after our three games, it will show us, that you respect the majority,and are willing to compromise for the sake of TM.
I Invite you, to join the enthuasiastic Iranians fan,and your friends here.to pull for the victory.....................
It is Time to say together.....Dodoro,dodoro,do......IRAN

[BehzadB]

He is paid to do the job. In contrast, no coach in Iran was paid as much as him, so having good result supposedly matches his pay check. Besides, "good result" has a very wide meaning and not many people agrees with what some others call it "good".
All in all, Branko and team Melli benefited from each other (maybe Branko more, don't forget no country would have given their national team to un-proven and blank resume coach), and this doesn't mean they will benefit more from each other. We both (TM and Branko) need a sign of success in upcoming WC to have better coach and also better team for each party.
Let's see what he is doing with some dilemmas in his team. His goal keeping, his left back and the biggest of all, his formation of 4-2-3-1 and Daei up front. Hope, he proves all his critics wrong.

I agree with everthing there. The only thing I like to add is that not only no coach was paid as much as him, but more importantly, no coach has ever been given the "time" that Branko has had. That is the biggest difference. and that's why it is impossible to compare Branko's "Karnameh" with any other coach.

TM could have certainly used a better coaching staff than the one we have, but of course as always (i.e 1998 WC), we can only say, Next time.

[Hajagha]

I agree with everthing there. The only thing I like to add is that not only no coach was paid as much as him, but more importantly, no coach has ever been given the "time" that Branko has had. That is the biggest difference. and that's why it is impossible to compare Branko's "Karnameh" with any other coach.
TM could have certainly used a better coaching staff than the one we have, but of course as always (i.e 1998 WC), we can only say, Next time.

Yes, however his performance was good enough to be kept. My opinion is, IFF did a good job to hire him and keep him until now, keeping him still benefites us? I don't think so.

[Doctor DOOM]

yashar jan, if he really wanted such a team ( with so many attackers ) , then he would have picked such teams ( not necessarily the exact players, I admit ) for all the previous months and friendlies and ... .

if he really wanted guys like kazemian, khatibi, enayati , ....well, you ask yourself: werent these guys doing as well, months back?
why keep them out of the team for the longest period, just to call them less than a month away from the games?

the anser is simple: he does NOT plan to use them.
they are there exactly for what I said : an eye wash.

just as I have said before, all will be revealed when we see the line ups and subs for the games.
just wait and see.

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as for what I think of him:
when we were trying to RE-hire him, I did say he'll fare better at OMID team and NOT the TM.

he had worked with the omid players and when compared to MK, I think ( or thought, at that point of time ) he would have done better with those youngsters.
and I did say, he is not well suited for the national team.





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zz jan, agha ma chakerim.

I have always said , even if I say things like this or my other posts, it is only becoz I beleive we wont be at our maximum best , for the games.
and I see this as a lost opportunity, which would be unfair to iran's football.
restricted by a restricted and limited mind.