Team melli next head coach candidates

[Rooyintan]

Bob Bradley

Can you picture him accepting the job or living in Iran?

[Ardalan]

My top choice is carlos carvalhal. He is coaching in uae so certainly open to working in the area, he has mentioned before iran is a talent hotbed and ofc did great things coaching mehdi and rio ave, and then Braga. He improved both those sides a lot, has experience working in both 2nd division and top flight of england with Sheffield Wednesday and Swansea, he is a young coach with attacking system and has an eye for young players and talent development of existing stock.

If we cannot get him, Renard is a solid option, but not sure if he will become available.

Besides these I do not see many coaches willing to come to Iran at the moment. No domestic coach has showed anything to suggest they will do better than CQ. If we go for underqualified coach we will get rift in camp and embarassment. So in case carvalhal profile or renard is not available, stick with CQ but give mandate that teams need major refreshing like he did post 2014 successfully.

Carlos Carvalhal shodeh morrabbie Celta Vigo. Pas az yek mah dar Al-Wahda tasmim gereft pishnahade Celta raa ghaabol kone.

[O-ZoNe]

Afshin Ghotbi is coaching a Canadian team.

Omid Namazi won't accept Team Melli Head Coach position with the current situation in Iran.

Does Mohammad Khakpour have USA Citizenship?

So which American you actually have in mind?

Dan Gaspar? Portuguese American?

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[armen]

Former TM and CQ assistant coach Omid Namazi also seems to believe that it's time to move on from CQ:

[Iran_19]

Jardim..

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[taremiscores]

It doesn’t matter who the coach is.

Under this regime, IR Iran has hit its ceiling (3rd in first round of WC and semi-finals of Asian Cup). We have 43+ years of hard evidence to back this up

All footballing nations who thrive do so because they have excellent governments and democracies. We see this in our current confederation with Japan, Korea and Australia advancing. This rule of excellence extends way beyond Asia as well.

[Essi]

Baba doostan, it doesn't matter which coach you hire. CQ, José Mourinho or Amir Ghalenoei.

There are key factors to success in any sport which we lack big time.

People (Human Resources, talents)
Management
Operations, youth development
Planning
Marketing
Finances (Assets, Facilities, Equipment)

We fulfil barely only one of this which is the first (talents) and that's it.

Now keep on comparing Iran with SK, Japan and KSA and CQ with Reinar, Paulo Bento ....

[PSGman#19]

Baba doostan, it doesn't matter which coach you hire. CQ, José Mourinho or Amir Ghalenoei.

There are key factors to success in any sport which we lack big time.

People (Human Resources, talents)
Management
Operations, youth development
Planning
Marketing
Finances (Assets, Facilities, Equipment)

We fulfil barely only one of this which is the first (talents) and that's it.

Now keep on comparing Iran with SK, Japan and KSA and CQ with Reinar, Paulo Bento ....

That's why we should sell our talent to Europe asap instead of dreaming of proper planning, investment, academies, infrastructures who will never come. That's what Africans do

What PP did in preventing beiro to go to Europe (delaying it so much) or abdi recently was totally wrong.

[Tarsal Claw]

I was being sarcastic about an American. Poor guy will be jailed for espionage within weeks.

[oracle]

Former TM and CQ assistant coach Omid Namazi also seems to believe that it's time to move on from CQ:

Omid was AFTABEH b KUN
CQ,
he should relax before disrespecting
his former boss like that.

[mahestan]

Omid was AFTABEH b KUN
CQ,
he should relax before disrespecting
his former boss like that.

Haha, it's ok to criticize your boss and question his decisions. Seriously, I mean it. Just because CQ was/is the boss, it doesn't mean he is correct all the time, and should be followed blindly. Boss should be held accountable for his mistakes...

[oracle]

Haha, it's ok to criticize your boss and question his decisions. Seriously, I mean it. Just because CQ was/is the boss, it doesn't mean he is correct all the time, and should be followed blindly. Boss should be held accountable for his mistakes...

The point was
when u come from aftabeh ab kun status,
Cq is not on his level to talk.

[Rooyintan]

Dan Gaspar? Portuguese American?

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Oh yeah. I forgot about him. Thank you for the reminder.

[Rooyintan]

Let's be realistic no foreign coach will come to Iran, apart from the following:

1. Football Federation can make peace with Dragan Skocic, tell him that since he was the one who got Team Melli qualify for 2023 AFC Asian Cup, he should be the one to be Head Coach at that tournament.

2. Appoint one of the current foreign coaches in Iran Pro League, although they need to convince those clubs to let those coaches resign:

José Morais (Portugal) current coach of Sepahan

Ricardo Sá Pinto (Portugal) current coach of Esteghlal [no experience coaching national teams]

Edson Tavares (Brazil) current coach of Sanat Naft

3. Bring a foreign coach who used to coach in Iran:

Winfried Schäfer (Germany)

Luka Bonačić (Croatia) [no experience coaching national teams]

4. Find an Iranian coach who is willing to coach. With the current situation do not think that many will accept the job.

Would "The Ian Trio" be the possible answer? Alireza Mansourian-Vahid Hashemian-Markar Aghajanian with one of them be assigned Head Coach and other two assistants.

[Ahmad_DC]

Finding players is much more important than spending money on coaches. Every one of these great coaches have suffered many losing seasons or tournaments. They only win when they have worthy players. Unfortunately, we do not seem to have any great players in the pipeline so the question of whom should our next coach be is moot. The focus needs to be on finding and encouraging the next generation of great players.

By the way 15 out of 16 teams that made it to the next round are being coached by domestic coaches. Soccer (old or new), (traditional or modern), (bekesh ziresh or tiki taka) is not rocket science. I would rather have a coach who is concentrating on best use of his players as opposed to a coach who thinks the players are pieces in a chess match between the two coaches. Domestic or foreign does not matter to me. I do commend CQ for the closeknit feeling in the team. The us against the world speeches. And he does benefit from not being able to speak Farsi and living in a bubble. This one benefit might tip the scale for a foreign coach. If the players want to keep CQ, he should stay.