John Duerden Article about the Iran vs. South Korea Friendly

[Z Joon]

^I heard that Aboubakar Hassanzadeh plays for Black Lions in Somalia he's kinda starving but let's invite him to TM, IPL sucks there are no talents there I really don't believe there is

[eerooni]

This guy clearly has a big bias for east asia hes in love with all those south east asian minnows.
This article just shows how little he actually knows. He makes it seem as iran was dominated and could do nothing but stay back but says nothing about that being queiroz's tactic for a while now...

His comment shows his idiotic bias! : "Not only was there frustration at being behind after being on top for most of the game but few, perhaps almost no, referees would have allowed the goal"

sports journalist tend to forget the multitudes of injustice Iran experienced in AFC, the outrageous time wasting tactics of Bahrain, the bihind the door bribing by Saudis and the pathetic grouping of AFC officials to deliberately rob IRan of anyt qualification and yet no sports writer ever utters a word, but one goal that IMO was legit and fair( if any thing the Korean was the one who fouled Azmoun!) has been called a dud!

[Paradigm]

The game in Beirut showed the ambulance driver high-five the lebanese player.

^^

[ali alipour]

Also your boobs > Golshifteh's.

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[KC McElroy]

Sharif university : http://www.timeshighereducation.co.u...-of-technology

Giant man boobs: http://www.sharenator.com/image/180595/

[ramingeles2000]

exactlyyyy!!! its not like jahanbakhsh, azmoun, ezatolahi, and taha zareie are all under 21 and have moved to europe in only the passed year. Not to mention players like hazami and hajsafi who would be in europe right now if it werent for non footballing reasons. Ipl has no talent Somalian 6th division > Ipl

i meant established legionnaires. i don't care ezatollahi or zarei bc they haven't done anything yet. they could be back in iran tomorrow. if you look at azizi, bagheri, karimi, hashemian, kia, daei - - ppl who actually had real careers in european first divisions - they all went in their mid-20s.

people who have followed iranian football for a long time would know this

[ali alipour]

i meant established legionnaires. i don't care ezatollahi or zarei bc they haven't done anything yet. they could be back in iran tomorrow. if you look at azizi, bagheri, karimi, hashemian, kia, daei - - ppl who actually had real careers in european first divisions - they all went in their mid-20s.

people who have followed iranian football for a long time would know this

if you quickly look at some of the korean and australian legionnaires you will see that it is not all about football. There are ipl players that are 10x better than some of these players but they are not looked at or cannot go to europe because of non footballing reasons. There is one korean sriker ji dong won who scored 8 goals in 54 appearances in mediocre european teams and now he is playing for borussia dortmund...

[Cataphract]

At the U17 World Cup we tied Argentina 1-1 and were the better side.
We played decent football and were stopped by the controversial Nigerians who eventually won the tournament.

In other words, we have the raw talent, but two factors come into my mind why our talents are not harvested properly:

1 - Sociopolitical factors have contributed to the lack of investment in Iranian talent from foreign countries.
2 - Our own players and their agents who so far unfortunately have chosen the path of money (Arab countries) rather than development (Europe).
3 - The domestic coaches are too afraid to think outside the box and are very conservative. They rarely experiment with younger players.

However on the bright side the "new" generation are fortunately intelligent and try to go to Europe like Azmoun, Haghighi, Jahanbakhsh, Ezzatollahi, Taha etc etc..
The best part is that they are not exile-Iranian and will not have cultural and language barriers ahead of them, like Davari and Beitashour, when playing for TM.

[Siavash]

Obviously bias and totally blind analysis. The way I saw the game it was CQ's tactics that made Koreans suffer the entire game and their total frustration came out at the end of the game. Yes CQ allow Korean to play and have fun passing and running around and feel good but they were not allowed to dominate around 18 yards. CQ tactics resulting in Korean frustration make them rush the ball and not on target.

[Paradigm]

Australia is the host and I am sure they want the trophy (their first in Asia) very eagerly. Imagine a semifinal with Iran... it'll be tense considering what happened in 1997.

[sirvan]

Haj Safi deserved to be in Europe when he was already 18 years old, i call it great injustice and political bias that this great young man is still playing in ipl, Spain would suit Haj Safi best, a club like Valencia or Sevilla are at his level and i'm not joking. I hope Ezatollahi developes his football we need a player like Bagheri in TM again and he reminds me of the General. I see Haj Safi and Ezatollahi running the show at the heart of our midfield.

[Doctor DOOM]

if you quickly look at some of the korean and australian legionnaires you will see that it is not all about football. There are ipl players that are 10x better than some of these players but they are not looked at or cannot go to europe because of non footballing reasons. There is one korean sriker ji dong won who scored 8 goals in 54 appearances in mediocre european teams and now he is playing for borussia dortmund...

It makes no sense comparing our ''European stints and contracts'' with those of the Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, ... .
There are a million factors involved that are NOT directly (or some even indirectly) related to the actual QUALITY of the player.
First and foremost is FINANCIAL factors for the club.
If a European club spends some amount of money and buys a Japanese, korean, or more lucratively, a Chinese player(who are even cheaper than the former two), they get entry to a 1.4 billion population merchandizing market. Imagine the sale and franchise of their club merchandise, FOR ONE YEAR only, itself will pay for the hiring of that player.

Pretty much the same thing for korean, Japanese, ... markets. Basically east Asian market provides perfect sense for any club (outside the super duper rich clubs) to think about these venues.


But Iran does NOT provide such a market. Neither are we open, like those countries. And thenfact that we don't even adhere to copy rights laws makes it idiotic for clubs to think about earnings in Iran.
Besides, the media attention that the east Asians receive is 100's of tomes more than what our IPL receives. Which makes its exposure extremely limited to the outsiders.


I doubt anyone thinks a large majority of the Asian players playing in Europe are any better or superior to many of our Iranian ones. But political, financial, ... issues create this difference.

[Doctor DOOM]

... cont'd

And then you have the most moronic and absurd hurdle, which is this confounded ''military service'' issue that just cripples our football !!

[Abbas85]

This guy clearly has a big bias for east asia hes in love with all those south east asian minnows.
This article just shows how little he actually knows. He makes it seem as iran was dominated and could do nothing but stay back but says nothing about that being queiroz's tactic for a while now...

I HIGHLY doubt this guy has a bias for SK or is a Iran hater. It's just a 3rd person's view and assessment of the game. We as fans of course don't take kindly to criticism but lets be real man.

[ali alipour]

I HIGHLY doubt this guy has a bias for SK or is a Iran hater. It's just a 3rd person's view and assessment of the game. We as fans of course don't take kindly to criticism but lets be real man.

maybe hes not biased himself, but he clearly is solely writing based on a korean point of view.