Originally posted by arseces
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And your last sentence pretty much sums up the issue for me. I prefer a more attacking style of football and that's a preference that goes back to watching the game since I was a little kid. CQ only came into that picture 4 years ago, so this has nothing to do with him and I have no idea why some people take it so personally if you have a different preference, as if you're swearing at their mom or sister!
Having said that, our performance against Chile was more than fine even though it wasn't an all out attacking game - it was GREAT. We had a balanced approach that showed both our defensive and offensive capabilities. Until this game, most people kept talking about how CQ had made our defense solid and he had, but how many people mentioned anything about our offense being good?!
Aside from the fact that you can't win games without scoring, the main job of your offense (paraphrasing Pele) is to take the pressure off your defense. You can't pile the pressure on your defenders IMHO and expect them to perform game after game in a tournament setting without cracking. We saw this both in the Bosnia and Iraq games and had we played the rest of this game the way we did in the last 30-40 minutes, we would have seen it again.
That's why a balanced approach is what we need and TM showed against Chile not only that they're capable of that but that they actually thrive in that scenario. I always said that was the way to go and I'm happy to see that and I would have been much happier if I saw it much more frequently.
If we had seen this much more frequently (i.e. without a 9 month hiatus after the Argentina game), no one would have dared to put him in a situation where he was forced to quit. How many people in Iran came out criticizing our performance against Argentina!? How many of them have you heard saying a single word after this game?! Because it's very difficult if not impossible not to be happy about this result, let alone criticize the overall performance.
99.999% of Iranians (i.e. almost everyone who doesn't have anything to gain financially from CQ's departure) want TM to succeed. That's what some people here don't seem to understand. They think some of us in the 25% that didn't give CQ high approval ratings have something to gain from his departure! What the hell do I have to gain from CQ leaving or TM being without a coach or getting bad results?!
If he can play this style and get these results he has my vote to stay forever! I doubt many people in the 25% (or 12% or whatever the number is) disagree with that. Everybody loves TM, everybody loves a win and I think almost everybody loves a well played balanced game where we fight like men but don't come out with a win (i.e. Argentina game).
I'm pretty sure no one wants to see us go backwards at this point and undo what has been gained in the past 4 years. And I'm pretty sure everybody would be happy if we're constantly moving forward and building on what has been gained in the past 4 years and what we have learnt in the past 20-30 years. We just need to learn to agree on a happy medium for success, both in here and out there.
If we can't put together a blueprint of success in here with a few dozen educated and professional people, it's pretty silly to accept it will happen out there on a large scale from the bunch that's running the IFF or other organizations in Iran.
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