Brainstorming: anything we can do?

[AminGP]

How about boycotting AFC and Asian Cup sponsors?

That's not a punishment, they would accept that gladly. That's exactly what they want.

[Doctor DOOM]

the only thing we can do is to sum all these up and send an open letter to Fifa!
Will not change anything but we can officialy report on our open letter and send it to as much sports magazines and papers as possible.
Some will ignore them, some might mention them.
it will make some noise! But thats it I am afraid!

Again, if we were another regular country like .... I don't know ... like India or Romania or Chile, we'd have FFA's and world media's ears .... at least some of them.
But Iran?
I seriously doubt we'd get any hearing. Hell, we'd be lucky of they don't say ''Good. serves them right''.

We must understand when we step outside Iran, we're never on equal footing with anyone.
Maybe against a' Qaeda or ISIS candidates, we may get some attention. But that's about it.
Now, it is up to us to consider and take into account this ''handicap'' when we take part n any sporting event. And put in that extra effort to at least bring us on level and equal footing. In other words, we step onto games thinking we're already 1-0 down, to put it simply

[vatanparast]

play better football? have you thought of that?

Silence is my response

[Farbakhsh]

Fix our country first, and then fix our team.

[alaph]

act like grown up! maybe stop flopping around?!

[xerexes]

^moosh bokhoratet elahi.

[_Navid_]

If we had a caring, nationalistic regime in power these small countries wouldn't dare to screw Iran. Good old 1970s. An Iranian was the head of AFC, another one number of 2 of Asian Olympic organisation. No one dared to mess with us. Now we have the circus man Kaffashian in power who can't do anything other than laughing his ass off.

[IPG]

what's so rubbish about critisizing the way we play football and analyzing the root of our failure and not going the easy way by pointing fingers?

There is nothing wrong about it if the critisme is correct. The truth of the matter is untill that red card Iran had not conceded a single goal and was in driving seat. But even if the quality of the play was the issue one can not go about the corrupt actions of AFC. No where in the world would the last group matches not be played simultaniously except AFC. It is not fair play as the teams playing later would benefit knowing the results. One could argue that if the team be better the last game would not matter and yes that is a valid point but that does in no way justify corruption and should lead to acceptance of idiotic unfair desicions that effect the results of games. Nor would the coaching of the standard of Williams today and also in previous games be tolerated.

[The Realist]

Most of the suggestions with AFC, UEFA. FIFA can only work if it has a United front, like an association or even PFDC with a mandate. Then the initiative will have a recognised voice. Random objection or demand will not help.

[Damavand]

I am afraid this is a losing battle. Nobody in the world cares because of the Akhund regime has given a terrorist image to all Iranians around the world.

This is the third AC since the revolution where we were clearly the best team of the tournament and deserved the trophy. And each time ended the same way with AFC/REFFS robbing us blind.

Only way out is to over throw this filthy regime.

[ParthianDE]

Now, top the above complications with destructive behavior such as backing of terrorism, and worse, actual acts of terrorism (recent case on Australia itself), ...etc.
When you have such a deadly combination, you can be sure your citizens and various ventures outside your country receive very little support and actually get more enmity than usual.

WTF? What the hell are you talking about? You sound like a neocon. Are you a troll?

Iran (Islamic Republic or not) neither backs terrorism nor produces any terrorists. In fact Iran has been suffering from terrorism directed against Iran!

The crazy "Iranian" who commited an actual act of terrorism in Australia was an extremely unusual case. He was a wanted criminal in Iran; Iran warned Australia about him and requested his extradition from Australia so he can be jailed and prosecuted in Iran.
Australia refused and actually tried to use him in an anti-Iran media campaign reg. free speech (ROTFLOL) and ultimately paid the price for their own stupid anti-Iran behaviour. The guy was a crazy criminal and in no way reflects Iranians, nor even the current regime.

I'm disgusted by your post!

[kami_kakashi]

The problem is we don't have ultra rich Iranians who could step in and independent of Iranian government influence matters. Arabs have this ability, also Russians. If we could get an Iranian to truly invest in Iranian sports and harvest our athletes in globally influential games then the issue will be resolved regardless of how incompetent Iranian federations are.

If we have famous international players then referees like Ben Williams think twice before making decisions against them. The trick is to find Iranians who would contribute.

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https://www.facebook.com/pages/Benja...37604029831940


Even the women are getting into it:

Hengameh Khanoom:
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[Spyder]

I am afraid this is a losing battle. Nobody in the world cares because of the Akhund regime has given a terrorist image to all Iranians around the world.

This is the third AC since the revolution where we were clearly the best team of the tournament and deserved the trophy. And each time ended the same way with AFC/REFFS robbing us blind.

Only way out is to over throw this filthy regime.

Ridiculous comment.