Carlos Queiroz sees QATAR & UAE as FAVORITES but NOT IRAN!!

[Team Melli Fan]

Their preparations are better than ours. They don't have a completely incompetent government holding them back. But cute mind games from Queiroz.

[xerexes]

Publicly playing up your opponents while playing down your own chances is a very common tactic. You build up the team privately, but in public you do everything you can to present yourself as underdogs and take the pressure off your players and put it on your opponents. There are countless examples of this in every sport. Just off the top of my head, last spring, Germany's general manager Oliver Bierhoff said in interviews that they had NO chance to win the World Cup in Brazil. And Low did not disagree with him in public. This is from ESPN:

General manager Oliver Bierhoff had described Germany's chances to win the World Cup in South America as virtually impossible not long ago, and a lot of people had bought into the argument.
Loew had dared to disagree at the time, but only quietly.

Another thing this tactic does is it disarms the opposing coaches of a great psychological weapon, especially when they already see themselves as the underdogs. It makes it harder to tell their players the other side is arrogant and doesn't respect them and that they should prove them wrong. CQ himself did this masterfully in our last qualifying game in Seoul with a lot of pressure on our team to get a result, where he kept repeating that the South Korean coach had 'disrespected' and 'insulted' Team Melli.

The guy knows what he's doing.

[Babak]

Money talks, the rest is all bullshit:
https://www.sportingbet.com.au/socce...an-cup-futures
2015 Asian Cup Winner
Australia
3.35
Japan
3.35
South Korea
7.00
Iran
7.00
Uzbekistan
15.00
China
21.00
Qatar
26.00
Saudi Arabia
29.00
Iraq
29.00
United Arab Emirates
34.00
Oman
41.00
North Korea
51.00
Bahrain
51.00
Kuwait
51.00
Jordan
51.00
Palestine
151.00



Group C Winner
Iran
1.85
Qatar
4.00
United Arab Emirates
4.50
Bahrain
7.00

[ehsan singapore]

i actually dont mind he saying this, iran had little friendlies, now he need to motivate them, and this will be a super good motivation

[Leopard]

Just for a few seconds I thought wow, what is the man saying? but then i said we were in WC2014 and that was more preparation than any other team in the group, and then I said we can beat any of those teams using B team so why saying it?
He is trying to tell Bahrain "you are nothing".

Then after the first match he will have new words for the next team.

[Dreamer]

Everybody calm down. What really matters is what happens on the pitch, the rest is just fluff.

[littlepersia17]

Carlos Queiroz sees QATAR & UAE as FAVORITES but NOT IRAN!!

Whatever sort of friendlies Qatar or UAE had doesn't account for the fact that talent wise, we are superior to those two nations.

[Team Melli Fan]

Whatever sort of friendlies Qatar or UAE had doesn't account for the fact that talent wise, we are superior to those two nations.

Talent wise and passion wise, we're superior to all arab nations when it comes to football.

[Farhad-7]

He doesn't really mean it. He's just being bitter and trying to show his frustration with not having a proper camp and friendlies but when does IFF ever get it right.

[Paradigm]

It's called reverse psychology. If Shah had used it too, we wouldn't be under the mullahs now.

[Z Joon]

Carlos Queiroz sees QATAR & UAE as FAVORITES but NOT IRAN!!

Meant or not, Carlos is not going to gain more Iranian supporters by saying these kinds bulls**t, that's for sure.

He can lower the expectations if he wants, however any BS result against arab minnows will be the end of the road for him.

Ghotbi made an acceptable run in 2011 with an IPL squad, under the same IFF, in a group with a World cup team, Asian cup title holders and UAE, a tougher draw with SK in quarters, Queiroz has absolutely no excuses to fail until the Semis.

[Bi-honar]

Ghotbi made an acceptable run in 2011 with an IPL squad, under the same IFF, in a group with a World cup team, Asian cup title holders and UAE, a tougher draw with SK in quarters, Queiroz has absolutely no excuses to fail until the Semis.

I feel like I'm stuck in a bad Twilight Zone episode bro. He was not only working under the same regime or federation, but the same federation president! Some people think IFF suddenly became incompetent under CQ.

It's the same shitty incompetent federation it has been for the past 35 years... the same shitty federation every TM coach has had to deal with, and the same shitty federation that CQ agreed to work with 3 months ago being fully aware of how shitty it was and all its limitations.

But for some strange reason, we should hold CQ to a different set of standards than every other TM coach and we should be okay listening to every member of the TM cadre mentioning these limitations in every other interview. It's tiring, it's frustrating and frankly it's senseless.

Where in the world do you see someone constantly belittling and criticizing their employer every chance that they get or somehow their employer or customers (i.e. the fans in this case) being okay with it and treating it as if that's normal?!

But even stranger and more Twilight Zonish than that is heaven forbid, if you criticize some aspect of CQ's work, some fans will say you don't know shit and make every justification to argue against your point. A month later, they will use the exact same point to justify some other aspect of CQ's work!

Example: 2 months ago, when I was saying that playing against club teams in Portugal and S. Africa isn't going to cut it as far preparing TM, most people were saying you don't know shit, CQ knows what he's doing and that Portuguese club teams were better friendlies for TM than playing some weak national teams.

The same people are now saying that TM's preparations suck because we played club teams! Well, which one is it? If those games were appropriate, then we've had 6 friendlies so far and no one should be complaining about the lack of friendlies. If they weren't appropriate, then why were you adamantly arguing two months ago that they were?!

Was it IFF that forced CQ to hold those two camps and play those games or did he ask for them? Does one cancelled friendly against Palestine in which IFF had no choice, or a crappy friendly against the Zimbabwe U-23 team really make the difference between success at the Asian Cup or failure?!

Future example: I said the training in the S. Africa camp did not look regimented and proper for the level of competition we re facing. Again, I didn't know shit, how can I judge the training based on a few pictures from the 1st 15 minutes of practice, the training is exactly how it should be done and CQ knows best. Just wait and see how many of the same people will come back and say TM had fitness issues and blame our players if we don't play well!!!

At any rate, I'm buying the mind game argument for now. There's no point to continue criticizing anything (be it CQ, IFF, IR or the tooth fairy) this close to the tournament. We'll just have to wait and judge CQ on the merit of his work.

I'm just not prepared to one, lower my expectations from what they were in previous AC's and two, to later try to justify our failure (heaven forbid) or blame it on other factors which have always existed in our football and most likely will exist going forward for as long as there are no structural changes to the system of governance in Iran.

[khodam]

CQ is aiming for the upper hand to when TM finishes 4th or 5th. Then he will be praised for a decent finish. TM stuation is so messed up that is
hard to figure who is telling the truth.

[persepolisfan]

I don't care if its reverse psychology, it is a disgraceful thing to say. He may have certain intentions with his comments, but he has not only disrespected our people, but the players that have worked so hard with dedication under him. He is a fine coach, yes, but he has his many flaws, and this is one of them. Don't play down your own team, and prepare them to lose to a bunch of Arabs.

[ehsan singapore]

why is it a disgrace?we played one friendly,while usae andQATAR PLAY 10.i believ we can still win but they are ready also