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Well....finally I also got to meet CQ tonight!!! 
What a nice experience!
Me and a friend went to their hotel. yes there were guards! There were a lot of Iranians already waiting outside but as time passed, the crowd got more and more packed!! Ando came for a short while and took pictures with the fans and then Beiravand came out, taking pictures (I never realized how tall Beiravand really was by the way). After 1 or 2 hours, they let us in to wait for the players in the lobby as they were gonna come out and eat their dinner. CQ had already left to this meeting so we were waiting for the players. They told us, the ones who choose to meet people, they will come out our way and the others who don't choose it, they will go from a back door. So after a while some of the players came out (Nekounam, Gucci, Dejagah, Ansarifard, Omid Ebrahimi, Jalal Hosseini, Pejman Montazeri, Amir Hossein Sadeghi, Masoud Shojaei and Khosro Heydari) and people jumped on them right away! The poor players had to take pictures with every single fan who wanted it. They were more or less squeezed by the crowed!! It took quite a good while for the players to be able to finally reach the restaurant. Apparently from what I heard later from the organizers, CQ was furious at them for this and yelled at them like crazy! They said right now he's so angry at us for letting so many people in around the players, that they couldn't even get close to him.
Meanwhile I met and talked to the 2 most humble and nicest TM members among the whole gang:
The first one was Markar Aghajanian!!! What a humble and nice guy! I talked to him for a good while and he really spent time and discussed some things with me and answered my many questions. I asked him weather he thought he gained some good experience during this time with CQ and had learned a lot. He said it has been like going through a complete university education and finishing your PhD afterwards. He said I can't even describe how much I have learned from him. I asked him do you think if it's really a done deal with CQ quitting. and he said yes, totally. I asked him but there isn't even a small chance? He said there is 1% chance and that is if the people up there in the federation would tell him from now on we will open the way for you just as you want it and let you work freely. But he said the fact is, this guy in the federation just told him right into his face: "I don't think you (CQ) are capable of handling TM and so far your results haven't been impressive at all! You haven't done anything special for TM", he told him right into his face! then Aghajanian said, even now for the Chile game, no one from the federation even picked up the phone to tell us good luck! and after the game, no one... not even one person called us to congratulate us for the win. I asked him not even Kafashian?? He said no!
I also asked him if, with the experience he's gotten from CQ, he could coach a team in IPL. He said, he would like to but to coach IPL teams there are "ways" that you have to be part of. I asked him, are you part of those "ways"? He shook his head and said we'll see what happens.
The second nicest TM member in no particular order was Sosha Makani! This guy was so polite, humble and nice that from the early evening to late night at the hotel, he spend all his times with people and his fans. He took pictures with them, talked to them and signed autographs. I approached him and asked him: "I guess just like all other players you like CQ too". He nodded and said, there is no explanation about CQ! Everybody know about him. I asked him about CQ quitting but surprisingly he said, we will try to keep him! Nothing is definite yet!!! I asked him but everyone say it's definite??!! He thought a bit but didn't say anything!
Among the other nice players to mention I have to name Masoud and Heydari! They were so to say, not "damagh bala" as some of the others.
So most people went home after that and some of us still remained to meet CQ! of course most of the remaining crowed (specially the girls) were mostly after taking pictures together with Haghighi. The guy came out of the CQ meeting room and suddenly the 10-20 remaining crowed started to shout out his name in excitement. When he saw the crowed, he escaped back and closed the door. LOL
Later I saw him walking fastly into the hallway from the back door and going away. The disappointed crowd waited for CQ and in the end, Markar Aghajanian came out and told us we could go in the meeting room 3 by 3 to take pictures with him. So me and my friend went in. I shook hands with him and told him everyone are devastated that you are quitting. He humbly smiled, nodded his head as a sign of appreciation and said thank you. I told him of course nobody blames you and they blame "the people up there", but I have to tell you that if there is even a smallest chance that a small way opens up and the people up there would let you work freely, please reconsider to stay! Again he nodded his head as a sign of "ok" and appreciation and said thank you.
All in all, what an experience! Damesh garm for accepting so many people to take pictures with him. and my all in all feeling after tonight was..... nothing is sure yet and everything depends on the idiots at the federation and how they will behave after the Sweden game. All I know is, if we have an acceptable result tomorrow, there will be a huge pressure on IFF to keep him!
What a nice experience!
Me and a friend went to their hotel. yes there were guards! There were a lot of Iranians already waiting outside but as time passed, the crowd got more and more packed!! Ando came for a short while and took pictures with the fans and then Beiravand came out, taking pictures (I never realized how tall Beiravand really was by the way). After 1 or 2 hours, they let us in to wait for the players in the lobby as they were gonna come out and eat their dinner. CQ had already left to this meeting so we were waiting for the players. They told us, the ones who choose to meet people, they will come out our way and the others who don't choose it, they will go from a back door. So after a while some of the players came out (Nekounam, Gucci, Dejagah, Ansarifard, Omid Ebrahimi, Jalal Hosseini, Pejman Montazeri, Amir Hossein Sadeghi, Masoud Shojaei and Khosro Heydari) and people jumped on them right away! The poor players had to take pictures with every single fan who wanted it. They were more or less squeezed by the crowed!! It took quite a good while for the players to be able to finally reach the restaurant. Apparently from what I heard later from the organizers, CQ was furious at them for this and yelled at them like crazy! They said right now he's so angry at us for letting so many people in around the players, that they couldn't even get close to him.
Meanwhile I met and talked to the 2 most humble and nicest TM members among the whole gang:
The first one was Markar Aghajanian!!! What a humble and nice guy! I talked to him for a good while and he really spent time and discussed some things with me and answered my many questions. I asked him weather he thought he gained some good experience during this time with CQ and had learned a lot. He said it has been like going through a complete university education and finishing your PhD afterwards. He said I can't even describe how much I have learned from him. I asked him do you think if it's really a done deal with CQ quitting. and he said yes, totally. I asked him but there isn't even a small chance? He said there is 1% chance and that is if the people up there in the federation would tell him from now on we will open the way for you just as you want it and let you work freely. But he said the fact is, this guy in the federation just told him right into his face: "I don't think you (CQ) are capable of handling TM and so far your results haven't been impressive at all! You haven't done anything special for TM", he told him right into his face! then Aghajanian said, even now for the Chile game, no one from the federation even picked up the phone to tell us good luck! and after the game, no one... not even one person called us to congratulate us for the win. I asked him not even Kafashian?? He said no!
I also asked him if, with the experience he's gotten from CQ, he could coach a team in IPL. He said, he would like to but to coach IPL teams there are "ways" that you have to be part of. I asked him, are you part of those "ways"? He shook his head and said we'll see what happens.
The second nicest TM member in no particular order was Sosha Makani! This guy was so polite, humble and nice that from the early evening to late night at the hotel, he spend all his times with people and his fans. He took pictures with them, talked to them and signed autographs. I approached him and asked him: "I guess just like all other players you like CQ too". He nodded and said, there is no explanation about CQ! Everybody know about him. I asked him about CQ quitting but surprisingly he said, we will try to keep him! Nothing is definite yet!!! I asked him but everyone say it's definite??!! He thought a bit but didn't say anything!
Among the other nice players to mention I have to name Masoud and Heydari! They were so to say, not "damagh bala" as some of the others.
So most people went home after that and some of us still remained to meet CQ! of course most of the remaining crowed (specially the girls) were mostly after taking pictures together with Haghighi. The guy came out of the CQ meeting room and suddenly the 10-20 remaining crowed started to shout out his name in excitement. When he saw the crowed, he escaped back and closed the door. LOL
Later I saw him walking fastly into the hallway from the back door and going away. The disappointed crowd waited for CQ and in the end, Markar Aghajanian came out and told us we could go in the meeting room 3 by 3 to take pictures with him. So me and my friend went in. I shook hands with him and told him everyone are devastated that you are quitting. He humbly smiled, nodded his head as a sign of appreciation and said thank you. I told him of course nobody blames you and they blame "the people up there", but I have to tell you that if there is even a smallest chance that a small way opens up and the people up there would let you work freely, please reconsider to stay! Again he nodded his head as a sign of "ok" and appreciation and said thank you. All in all, what an experience! Damesh garm for accepting so many people to take pictures with him. and my all in all feeling after tonight was..... nothing is sure yet and everything depends on the idiots at the federation and how they will behave after the Sweden game. All I know is, if we have an acceptable result tomorrow, there will be a huge pressure on IFF to keep him!
-federation kept bugging cq about an iranian assistant coach but he did have markar aghajanian all along. i hope this opens some doors for markar i know people with a lot less experience have gotten chances at coaching, why not aghajanian?
-the way assadi spoke to cq is downright unprofessional and un-iranian if you ask me. to do a performance evaluation is one thing but to talk like this is absolutely unacceptable. even the most staunch of cq critics and even bashers will agree that he did a lot for tm and at the very least should be respected for his efforts if not for being tm coach only. we are unfortunately khosh esteghbal and bad badraghe and we destroy the bridge unfortunately. vaghean khastegi be tanesh moond ba in joor raftar.
at the people who kept saying Sosha was a punk
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