UEFA Nations League our chance to get out?

[Bi-honar]

What common lineage do Iranians have with Europeans? Iranians are a diverse people themselves. Farsi is interestingly more similar and related to languages spoken in South Asia like Hindi, Panjabi, Urdu and many others which fit under Indo-Iranian languages which also include Pashto and Kurdish than languages in Europe. Yes, most of the languages in Europe, Iran and South Asia fit under the Indo-European languages, but what is this meant to do with football and joining UEFA?

Huh?! Here, I'll post a few pictures for you and you do the rest of the research:



^ Geographical extent of Iranian influence in the 1st century BCE.
The Parthian Empire (mostly Western Iranian) is shown in red.
Other areas, dominated by Scythia(Eastern Iranian), in orange.


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^ Indo-European language family tree.

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^ Frequency of R1a Haplogroup

[O-ZoNe]

Yes, and UEFA will welcome this additional nightmare for scheduling and Israeli FA will want to do this with open arms...not to mention the sub-par standards of Iranian stadiums and a whole host of other issues like sponsorship, TV rights...see my previous post.

[DubFreeek]

With the perfect infrastructure and freedom we have in Iran, I belive we have a great case joining UEFA, day out and day in Barcelona, Man U, Bayern Munchen, Italy, Germany, Spain coming to Iran, playing and then going back .. it all makes sense

[PSGman#19]

not allowing women in stadiums+not willing to play Israel+no alcohol related ads=no chance in hell

You forgot the most important : non-european. Otherwise why Zimbwabwe couldn't apply for UEFA too?

[Mir Javad]

Huh?! Here, I'll post a few pictures for you and you do the rest of the research:

^ Geographical extent of Iranian influence in the 1st century BCE.
The Parthian Empire (mostly Western Iranian) is shown in red.
Other areas, dominated by Scythia(Eastern Iranian), in orange.

Its doesn't matter anymore cause all those places in Europe and Central Asia, like Kazakhstan are nowadays dominated by Slavic, Uralic and Turkic people and the Scythian Aryans got wiped out and assimilated by these peoples and only Ossestians remain who speak an East Iranian language but they themselves are a small minority. People living there and in Europe don't identify with us and there are hardly any similarities. Who cares about these Aryan invasion theories, it like thousands of who knows years ago and its irrelevant to football.

[alaph]

this whole UEFA thing is retarded. we HAVE NOTHING to do with Europe.

[Siavash]

We can not runaway we must stay and fight to correct things and make AFC a fair Organization for all.

[Mir Javad]

Lets first aim about developing our football in Iran especially developing the youth and making the team one of the top in the World not just in Asia and one day qualifying beyond group stages of the World Cup, and making it to the Finals and improving our National League and making it competitive like in Europe and South America.

Forget about making a separate confederation or joining UEFA.

As I MENTIONED before we should focus on these things instead of trying to join UEFA which will never happen.

[sedee91]

We are geographically stuck in Asia and in the Middle East. What can we do? I wish we could join UEFA but we don't have a good argument like Israel or Australia and neither do we have really good relations with European countries, who will fight to refuse us.

So is Azarbaijan, Armenia, Russia and Turkey, yet they play part of UEFA.

[Mir Javad]

So is Azarbaijan, Armenia, Russia and Turkey, yet they play part of UEFA.

Part of Turkey and Russia is in Europe and Azerbaijan, Armenia happen to be exceptions cause they used to be apart of the Soviet Union, and are both part of the council of Europe.

[hzv]

football wise it would be much better for us. we would develop into a much stronger team. however culturally and politically we belong with the sand people. it is unfortunate but that is what has become of us. many of the sandis are even more advanced than us, they allow women into stadiums, their women can play sports without hijabs and the are not theocracies. khakeh alam bar sarat...

[saeed_noro]

our Head is in Europe, and with head we can score goals.

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


Kazakhstan is even more away as Iran...

[alaph]

football wise it would be much better for us. we would develop into a much stronger team. however culturally and politically we belong with the sand people. it is unfortunate but that is what has become of us. many of the sandis are even more advanced than us, they allow women into stadiums, their women can play sports without hijabs and the are not theocracies. khakeh alam bar sarat...

Thanks Khomeini

[whizland2000]

We can not runaway we must stay and fight to correct things and make AFC a fair Organization for all.

I am sorry to tell you my friend AFC will never be a fair organization when these arabs are running the show. When Bin Hammam was dropped guess who was appointed another arab. AFC is a very corrupt organization and they will continue to screw Iran and Iranians in the long run! They Fu**ing hate us and you think there is a chance their going to change. I am sorry this just shows how clueless some of you guys really are to what is happening..

[Kiarash]

UEFA Nations League our chance to get out?

Joining UEFA has only pro's for our football if you think of what it will give us in the long term: better infrastructure, more organized league, stronger opponents, easier transfers to Europe and so on. We probably won't qualify for the World Cup or EURO in a long time, but our football will make dramatic progress.

I think Iran is on par with 2rd tier European football countries like Norway, Russia, Greece, Romania and Turkey. We could give the top teams a good run for their money.