AFC U23 Championship : Qatar 2016

[PersianLegion]

Here watch Karimi for a break. This is football! Football is Karimi and Karimi is football.

[Damavand]

Iraq is a team that every team including us will be hoping to get in the next WCQ round, there is no point in comparing them with Iran

Exactly. Unfortunately or may be I should say fortunately the chances of Iraq making the final round is not very good. On the day we play India in Tehran, they will also be hosting Thailand. If they fail to win, they are pretty much out.

I have feeling Thailand will snatch the top spot in that group.

[04041374]

Khakpour will leave TM Omid according to Kafashian

[Shah Abbas]

Every time we fail to qualify for the Olympics, the manager gets sacked and replaced with someone else. Obviously that hasn't solved anything. Maybe the problem is from somewhere else (IFF)?

[PSGman#19]

Need to discover, invest on, and develop young footballers. That's how countries make professionals who are in service of their senior teams for a decade or longer. Back to the drawing board for Iran; the first change has to come from a shift in mentality. Let's find out how successful countries such as Japan and South Korea do it, and take lessons from them... I'd even hire advisors from those countries.

I don't disagreee but seeing how Kaveh Rezaei was one of the topscorer in Youth team and in U17 world cup and how nobody from Europe was interest in him, I question the need to have strong youth team. Uzbekistan, North Korea use to have good youth team but hardly have an impact in senior team.

[kami_kakashi]

Every time we fail to qualify for the Olympics, the manager gets sacked and replaced with someone else. Obviously that hasn't solved anything. Maybe the problem is from somewhere else (IFF)?

What do you suggest? They should fire U-19 coach and replace him with Khakpour?

It is very much the norm with youth teams that successful coaches stay with their team as they move up a grade and unsuccessful coaches will at very least have to wait for the lower age group coach to fail so they can take over.

[Shah Abbas]

What do you suggest? They should fire U-19 coach and replace him with Khakpour?

It is very much the norm with youth teams that successful coaches stay with their team as they move up a grade and unsuccessful coaches will at very least have to wait for the lower age group coach to fail so they can take over.

No, I suggest Kafashian is fired.
Khakpour was not the right man for this job and firing him now is the right decision. But, when you fail to reach the olympics for 44 years, it's pretty obvious that the fault doesn't lie with the manager.

[BacheLot]

Khakpour will leave ™ Omid according to Kafashian

i think its more the case of KP quitting than IFF firing him..!!

IFF once again did not live up to terms promised to him in his contract and it seemed he was set to quit even before the games get underway..!
I think Both parties accepted the fact that prestige associated with head coaching Omid was always gonna be the biggest pay-off for KP doing the gig….!!

Sure, U23 Demise in QF falls short of most all fans expectations but fact is that significant improvements were Also made during KP tenor at helm of U23..!!
i still think KP did an decent enough of job to garner himself a far more lucrative $$ contract from a club in IPL for next season than what he received from IFF for coaching U23…!!

[kami_kakashi]

There is no other alternative. There is no U23 team anymore after this tournament so the coach is automatically jobless. U19 already has a coach.

[Camran khan]

[littlepersia17]

Wow those Motahari misses were cringeworthy.

You have to expect your centre forward to put those away.[emoji17]

[Damavand]

Another expert analysis. If only our coaching was as good.

[Ardalan]

Teame zire 30 sale Eraq yek gol az Japon hamin alan khord.

[Kiarash]

The semi final Japan - Iraq is starting in few minutes.

[Gucci10]

The semi final Japan - Iraq is starting in few minutes.

Its already started azizam and Japan is winning 1-0.