Should Iran Leave the AFC?

[Bi-honar]

Because they were there to begin with as part of the Soviet Union.

Actually Kazakhstan's case was that part of their territory is geographically in Europe (like Turkey).

Armenia and Cyprus on the hand are not geographically in Europe (and some conventions put Georgia and Azerbaijan also in Asia). The case for these countries to be in Europe is their closeness to Europeans in terms of heritage and language. By that definition Iran could very well make the case for integration into Europe and therefore UEFA.

[whizland2000]

Definitely we're getting screwed around way too much in AFC!! We should imho move to UEFA as it is less biased against us...

[Team Melli Fan]

We could join UEFA but not under this regime

[Camran khan]

Are we going to start our own confederation with Kosovo, Kurdistan and all the other teams that are not accepted by Fifa?

[whizland2000]

Unless Arabs don't completely destroy us they won't stop! That is why we need a nice fresh new start. That is why moving away is the best option we wouldn't have to deal with Arab Football confederation any longer..

[whizland2000]

Even going to Oceania or Africa is better.

[KC McElroy]

Actually Kazakhstan's case was that part of their territory is geographically in Europe (like Turkey).

Armenia and Cyprus on the hand are not geographically in Europe (and some conventions put Georgia and Azerbaijan also in Asia). The case for these countries to be in Europe is their closeness to Europeans in terms of heritage and language. By that definition Iran could very well make the case for integration into Europe and therefore UEFA.

I don't know about Cyprus but for Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan it was the same deal as Kazakhstan. They were originally part of UEFA as part of the Soviet Union and thus could maintain their status there even after the breakup of the Soviet Union.

[arasradio]

LeaveTHANKS FOR THE GREAT POLL. WE NEED TO WAKE UP TO THE REALITY!

[arasradio]

19 against 13 for those wanting to leave AFC. A visible majority.

[tufun]

How about boycotting AFC events? or sending youth teams. It definitely sends a message.

Focusing on WCQ (unfortunately in AFC) and external mock tournaments within a more specific federation (Central Asian Federation) and invite teams decent teams?

We need to distance ourself from this shambles of an confederation and its petty tournaments filled with faults and favouritism.

Funny thread, is this seriously?
Just if the second yellow card was 100 % a wrong decision by ref.
Why and how u want blame afc for this. This ref we are talking about is the best ref In asia since years and he did mostly did a good job in Wc and Eu.
It seems people forget how many important tm games he did well.

Boycott Afc events, wow what a great idea, is that a joke ?
Thats would just hurt us and make the arabs happy.
We can not manage 4-5 friendly games per year but lets Boycot afc events and invite decent teams .... afganistan ,pakistan,kirgistan,turkmenistan

haha some are here realy funny, islamic terror nation nations with nuclear bomb ambition are always welcome to Uefa. It seems some are gone crazy.

Its over, we have to accept it.

[Doctor DOOM]

Not that i think it will ever happen. But just to indulge this fantasy, yes, we will be spared of loads of outrageous biased officiating and ruling in our games, but if we moved to the uefa, we might as well bid goodbye to all sorts of int'l tournaments like the WC or even the continental cups.



But if Iran becomes a respected member of int'l community (it definitely is NOT today), and inside Iran, we behave by rewarding people by MERIT, instead of who is whose nephew or uncle and place intelligent, educated and nationalistic individuals in major posts in Iran, then we may be able to find our way into various AFC committees and have influence.

Having a better, more progressive and respected country is also a pretty attractive bi-product too

But with this regime and its people? Keep dreaming.

[saeed_noro]

Actually Kazakhstan's case was that part of their territory is geographically in Europe (like Turkey).

Armenia and Cyprus on the hand are not geographically in Europe (and some conventions put Georgia and Azerbaijan also in Asia). The case for these countries to be in Europe is their closeness to Europeans in terms of heritage and language. By that definition Iran could very well make the case for integration into Europe and therefore UEFA.

this is not right. Kazakhstan is only in Europe, because being part of Soviet Union, and they had chance they accepted them. also because Kazakhs was also in Europe, Germany a lot, but geographically it is not.

wikipedia, UEFA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA

Map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA#me...FA_members.svg

SOME parts of this wikipedia text in german: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA#M....ittskandidaten

[Pedram123]

IR Iran should in the next series of nuclear agreements, slide this notion in.
"We will stop our nuclear program completely if you let TM in UEFA."
But that will of course never happen lol..

[persian8iran]

Why is Kazakhstan in UEFA?

Because they have Borat

[jahandoost]

Funny thread, is this seriously?
Just if the second yellow card was 100 % a wrong decision by ref.
Why and how u want blame afc for this. This ref we are talking about is the best ref In asia since years and he did mostly did a good job in Wc and Eu.
It seems people forget how many important tm games he did well.

Boycott Afc events, wow what a great idea, is that a joke ?
Thats would just hurt us and make the arabs happy.
We can not manage 4-5 friendly games per year but lets Boycot afc events and invite decent teams .... afganistan ,pakistan,kirgistan,turkmenistan

haha some are here realy funny, islamic terror nation nations with nuclear bomb ambition are always welcome to Uefa. It seems some are gone crazy.

Its over, we have to accept it.

You seem lost. Even Australians admit that the ref is poor..

Check this:
http://footballitarin.com/video_page.php?id=13426

We shouldn't give a toss about making the Arabs happy or sad, what matters is the prosperity of our football.