Ali Karimi Interview - Explaining why he left TM

[AminGP]

So I read the full interview in Persian. And he sounds alot like an Ahmadinejad+Daei love child. Tripping on his own ego with an incessant dose of "begam begam." And why did he leave the camp on the eve of their flight to Australia again? I heard alot of BS minor excuses but nothing he didn't know about already before joining the TM. So my money is still on his economy ticket.

Did you skip the part where he said he flew economy to the south african camp? Did you skip the part where he said he flew economy back from world cup in 2006 and they even came and offered him to go to the first class but he preferred to sit in economy?

[ramingeles2000]

AK is a great player, but he's full of drama, unprofessional, dramatic. Don't want him near TM.

[Ali.Karimi79]

AK is a great player, but he's full of drama, unprofessional, dramatic. Don't want him near TM.

I corrected the sentence for you. you're welcome.
AK was a great player, he never took shit from anyone, is down to earth and is still the peoples man. I want him near TM.

[Abtin]

I corrected the sentence for you. you're welcome.
AK was a great player, he never took shit from anyone, is down to earth and is still the peoples man. I want him near TM.

I don't see any changes in your quote?

[Ali.Karimi79]

I don't see any changes in your quote?

here u go again

AK was a great player, he never took shit from anyone, is down to earth and is still the peoples man. I want him near TM.

[Nariman]

Big thank you to AminGP jaan for translating this long interview for everyone. These words from Karimi need to be spread, you have done a great job bro.!

Not surprising that some try to take cheap shots at Karimi again, instead of focusing on the main point, but we are used to that by now. Pretty boring, back then at least we could discuss and exchange opinions - now everything is washed up and nonsense. It was very obvious that something serious was going on when Karimi did not fly to Austrialia, yet again we had those super naive people only creating hashiye & claiming/believing things like Karimi has problems with CQ/Nekounam, was not happy with the tickets, wants to sit on the bench...lol...Instead of questioning IFF, they again baselessly attacked Karimi. Does not matter, his popularity only increased during the past years and there is a clear reason behind that. Let them continue...

Back to the topic:
We should not forget the atmosphere during our WCQ - not everyone was pro-CQ at the beginning like these days, especially before the last 3 WCQ matches. Karimi was one of the few that publicly strongly stood behind CQ/TM from day #1 before other folks joined.

This was a great interview to read, but knowing IFF none of the points were surprising, rather expected.
I did not like all comments, for example what he said about Khanzadeh. Frankly sometimes Karimi is way too honest and says things he should keep for himself, then again that’s why many love him that much. I get his point - still I wish he would have supported Khanzadeh a bit here, 9 months is absolutely ridiculous.

Anyway don’t worry; Karimi says he does not want to do anything under these conditions just to arouse attention on these issues to pressure IFF. He might not go for a coaching license, but I believe he will do other things to help Iran and our football. With CQ/Nekounam leading TM INSIDE, we also need Karimi from outside to expose IFF's incompetence even more.