The potential of the upcoming "gold generation" - credit to CQ & his legacy?

[Ghermez Agha]

The more I read/watch interviews of our recent players that have moved to europe, I notice that most of them if not all have referenced CQ as a reason to move there. And for the ones that did not - its basically implied when they say they have a higher chance at making it to TM if they go to europe.

A lot of these guys are going to be a part of what I believe is Iran's next golden generation. We have never had this high of an influx of young iranian players move to europe - and by young I mean under 23 or not too much older (with the exception of one or two guys like ARH and Reza). Just take a look at the current list of players we have in europe:

1. Azmoun - Rostov
2. Ezzatolahi - Rostov
3. Jahanbakhsh - AZ
4. Milad Mohammadi - Terek Grozny
5. Hajsafi - FSV Frankfurt
6. Ansarifard - Panionios
7. Alireza Haghighi - Mairitimo
8. Reza Ghoochannejhad - Charlton

Now to add to this, the clear potenitals that are likely to make a move or are atleast capeable of it:

1. Mehdi Taremi
2. Mehdi Torabi
3. Alireza Beiranvand
4. Ramin Rezaeian
5. Kaveh Rezaie
6. Vahid Amiri
7. Rouzbeh Cheshmi
8. Mehrdad Mohammadi
9. Morteza Poolaliganji (given he is only 23 I guess I havent completely given up on him)


My point here is we clearly have a lot of talent....I haven't seen this much talent in a while in Iranian football. And something I want to adress here is that I am tired of reading comments like "none of these guys can be like kia or hashemian bc they are playing in russia or holland" or "we still don't have a legionaire in a top 3 league but kenya does WTF" do you people realize JB's or azmoun's age? theyre freaking 21 and 22 for crying out loud...do you honestly think they don't have aspirations to make it big in the next few years? What would be the point of sacrificing the money and glamour in Iran for these moves? These are some of the most professional footballers we have had since our last goilden generation...both on and off the field at VERY young ages which is why I am making these comparisons.

Again, I'm not going to say X is going to be better than kia or Y is going to be better than nekounam but rather that they are taking to right steps. I give most of, if not all the credit to CQ for making this mentality much more common among younger footballers in our country.

[Afat11]

The more I read/watch interviews of our recent players that have moved to europe, I notice that most of them if not all have referenced CQ as a reason to move there. And for the ones that did not - its basically implied when they say they have a higher chance at making it to TM if they go to europe.

A lot of these guys are going to be a part of what I believe is Iran's next golden generation. We have never had this high of an influx of young iranian players move to europe - and by young I mean under 23 or not too much older (with the exception of one or two guys like ARH and Reza). Just take a look at the current list of players we have in europe:

1. Azmoun - Rostov
2. Ezzatolahi - Rostov
3. Jahanbakhsh - AZ
4. Milad Mohammadi - Terek Grozny
5. Hajsafi - FSV Frankfurt
6. Ansarifard - Panionios
7. Alireza Haghighi - Mairitimo
8. Reza Ghoochannejhad - Charlton

Now to add to this, the clear potenitals that are likely to make a move or are atleast capeable of it:

1. Mehdi Taremi
2. Mehdi Torabi
3. Alireza Beiranvand
4. Ramin Rezaeian
5. Kaveh Rezaie
6. Vahid Amiri
7. Rouzbeh Cheshmi
8. Mehrdad Mohammadi
9. Morteza Poolaliganji (given he is only 23 I guess I havent completely given up on him)


My point here is we clearly have a lot of talent....I haven't seen this much talent in a while in Iranian football. And something I want to adress here is that I am tired of reading comments like "none of these guys can be like kia or hashemian bc they are playing in russia or holland" or "we still don't have a legionaire in a top 3 league but kenya does WTF" do you people realize JB's or azmoun's age? theyre freaking 21 and 22 for crying out loud...do you honestly think they don't have aspirations to make it big in the next few years? What would be the point of sacrificing the money and glamour in Iran for these moves? These are some of the most professional footballers we have had since our last goilden generation...both on and off the field at VERY young ages which is why I am making these comparisons.

Again, I'm not going to say X is going to be better than kia or Y is going to be better than nekounam but rather that they are taking to right steps. I give most of, if not all the credit to CQ for making this mentality much more common among younger footballers in our country.

Be careful, there are more than a few members here who say this happened organically. Guys like Hajsafi and Ansarifard would have gone to Europe despite whether CQ was the coach. These people are the same who give passes to the lunkhead vatani coaches and gush over the fact that Gholam Ghoozi helped _______ beat ________ 4-1 in IPL matchday 23, and deserves the coaching spot since that's such a difficult feat. To many on this forum, CQ hasn't done much, Iran made it to Brazil in spite of him. Ghoozi or any IPL coach could have done as well as CQ.

^Like I said, expect this "logic" from some. They are the same people that 2 years ago were laughing at Gucci being brought in by CQ, but every week were gushing over the new IPL flavor of the week from Arash Afshin to Mohammad Ghazi to whomever. These guys are similar to the European fans who love a player for the little while they are a flash in the pan and want them called up to the national team immediately (see Jamie Vardy's recent success in Leicester City of the EPL), then when they go back to being unremarkable players, people wonder why. It's because you shouldn't be too quick to hype or dismiss. So many times I've seen names pop up like "THIS GUY SHOULD BE INVITED BY CQ, WHAT IS CQ THINKING?????"

Then CQ calls them up, and they're invisible on the pitch for their 3-4 caps, and these people disappear from the comments section, no longer defending the players they were demanding CQ call up. Then, when someone they discounted from the beginning has a couple of bad performances, they will be the first to tell you about it. They are the very definition of bad football fans, so anyone who doesn't acknowledge what CQ has done for our team, just read what I wrote above, and you can compare your attitude to the hypothetical terrible football fan to yourself. You will probably see that it describes your attitude fairly closely, unless you convince yourself otherwise, which these members are experts at doing. "I NEVER DISCOUNTED GUCCI AND DEJAGAH AND WAS CALLING ARASH AFSHIN AND GHAZI THE REAL FUTURE OF TM!!!"

[eerooni]

CQ's postive affect for all his 5 years in Iran will have a lasting affect for many years to come!...

[Ando Teymourian]

Be careful, there are more than a few members here who say this happened organically. Guys like Hajsafi and Ansarifard would have gone to Europe despite whether CQ was the coach. These people are the same who give passes to the lunkhead vatani coaches and gush over the fact that Gholam Ghoozi helped _______ beat ________ 4-1 in IPL matchday 23, and deserves the coaching spot since that's such a difficult feat. To many on this forum, CQ hasn't done much, Iran made it to Brazil in spite of him. Ghoozi or any IPL coach could have done as well as CQ.

^Like I said, expect this "logic" from some. They are the same people that 2 years ago were laughing at Gucci being brought in by CQ, but every week were gushing over the new IPL flavor of the week from Arash Afshin to Mohammad Ghazi to whomever. These guys are similar to the European fans who love a player for the little while they are a flash in the pan and want them called up to the national team immediately (see Jamie Vardy's recent success in Leicester City of the EPL), then when they go back to being unremarkable players, people wonder why. It's because you shouldn't be too quick to hype or dismiss. So many times I've seen names pop up like "THIS GUY SHOULD BE INVITED BY CQ, WHAT IS CQ THINKING?????"

Then CQ calls them up, and they're invisible on the pitch for their 3-4 caps, and these people disappear from the comments section, no longer defending the players they were demanding CQ call up. Then, when someone they discounted from the beginning has a couple of bad performances, they will be the first to tell you about it. They are the very definition of bad football fans, so anyone who doesn't acknowledge what CQ has done for our team, just read what I wrote above, and you can compare your attitude to the hypothetical terrible football fan to yourself. You will probably see that it describes your attitude fairly closely, unless you convince yourself otherwise, which these members are experts at doing. "I NEVER DISCOUNTED GUCCI AND DEJAGAH AND WAS CALLING ARASH AFSHIN AND GHAZI THE REAL FUTURE OF TM!!!"

While I might agree with some of what you say, we shouldn't use players who put in effort for TM as some sort of example to mock.

Mohammad Ghazi played full force whenever he wore the TM shirt and was definitely part of our campaign to the WC. He played with heart, which is all that I can ask.

And Arash Afshin was a CQ regular until his long term injuries and sarbazi suspension. If he avoided those 2 factors it wouldn't be far fetched to say he might still be part of TM today.

[sirvan]

Queiroz is by far the best coach we ever had, credit where credit is due.

[Kiarash]

My opinion will be unpopular but I still wanted to post this.

If CQ had so much influence on players decisions to go to Europe, then why Pouraliganji ended up in Qatar while he made his debut under CQ? Please do not exaggerate.

At the end of the day, a player has his own ambitions and can think independently to choose Europe above IPL or PGL leagues. Azmoun, Jahanbakhsh & Ezatolahi were not even part of TM senior when they moved to Europe for example.

Surely CQ made some changes in mentality thanks to his professional and European coaching approach, but he's not the direct reason we have more players in Europe now than before. Our next generation of talents are more clever now and realized that they can maximize their potential by playing football only in Europe.

[Karimi 8]

Carlos is the man and I'm very happy with our young players making the move to Europe. Hopefully more to follow.

[Ghermez Agha]

Be careful, there are more than a few members here who say this happened organically. Guys like Hajsafi and Ansarifard would have gone to Europe despite whether CQ was the coach. These people are the same who give passes to the lunkhead vatani coaches and gush over the fact that Gholam Ghoozi helped _______ beat ________ 4-1 in IPL matchday 23, and deserves the coaching spot since that's such a difficult feat. To many on this forum, CQ hasn't done much, Iran made it to Brazil in spite of him. Ghoozi or any IPL coach could have done as well as CQ.

^Like I said, expect this "logic" from some. They are the same people that 2 years ago were laughing at Gucci being brought in by CQ, but every week were gushing over the new IPL flavor of the week from Arash Afshin to Mohammad Ghazi to whomever. These guys are similar to the European fans who love a player for the little while they are a flash in the pan and want them called up to the national team immediately (see Jamie Vardy's recent success in Leicester City of the EPL), then when they go back to being unremarkable players, people wonder why. It's because you shouldn't be too quick to hype or dismiss. So many times I've seen names pop up like "THIS GUY SHOULD BE INVITED BY CQ, WHAT IS CQ THINKING?????"

Then CQ calls them up, and they're invisible on the pitch for their 3-4 caps, and these people disappear from the comments section, no longer defending the players they were demanding CQ call up. Then, when someone they discounted from the beginning has a couple of bad performances, they will be the first to tell you about it. They are the very definition of bad football fans, so anyone who doesn't acknowledge what CQ has done for our team, just read what I wrote above, and you can compare your attitude to the hypothetical terrible football fan to yourself. You will probably see that it describes your attitude fairly closely, unless you convince yourself otherwise, which these members are experts at doing. "I NEVER DISCOUNTED GUCCI AND DEJAGAH AND WAS CALLING ARASH AFSHIN AND GHAZI THE REAL FUTURE OF TM!!!"

I'm pretty much with Ando on this....I agree with the bigger picture of what you're saying but it's not right to belittle the guys who came in when called on and contributed a good attitude and good effort. In particular both afshin and ghazi who both had promise in their own respect also had a series of unfortunate events to go along with their careers.

[NFL]

My opinion will be unpopular but I still wanted to post this.
If CQ had so much influence on players decisions to go to Europe, then why Pouraliganji ended up in Qatar while he made his debut under CQ? Please do not exaggerate.
At the end of the day, a player has his own ambitions and can think independently to choose Europe above IPL or PGL leagues. Azmoun, Jahanbakhsh & Ezatolahi were not even part of TM senior when they moved to Europe for example.
Surely CQ made some changes in mentality thanks to his professional and European coaching approach, but he's not the direct reason we have more players in Europe now than before. Our next generation of talents are more clever now and realized that they can maximize their potential by playing football only in Europe.

I never claimed to agree with the idea that CQ is "directly", or "indirectly" responsible for a few of our players playing in Europe.

but here is a question:

if you were a scout working with European clubs, wouldn't you be looking at some of the players that someone like Carlos Qeiroz is coaching? perhaps for some cheap bargains for second/third/fourth tier clubs?
our fans misjudge our coaches on both sides of the argument. naturally, understandable!

[Ghermez Agha]

My opinion will be unpopular but I still wanted to post this.

If CQ had so much influence on players decisions to go to Europe, then why Pouraliganji ended up in Qatar while he made his debut under CQ? Please do not exaggerate.

At the end of the day, a player has his own ambitions and can think independently to choose Europe above IPL or PGL leagues. Azmoun, Jahanbakhsh & Ezatolahi were not even part of TM senior when they moved to Europe for example.

Surely CQ made some changes in mentality thanks to his professional and European coaching approach, but he's not the direct reason we have more players in Europe now than before. Our next generation of talents are more clever now and realized that they can maximize their potential by playing football only in Europe.

You are chosing one player out of a whole bunch....how can 1 person disprove that? especially when these players have verbally said before that CQ/TM call ups is the reason? You cant keep referecning one specific scenario when there are far more that say otherwise. thats a failed point.

You just proved my point....sardar, JB, and ezzi all moved to europe to give themselves a chance because it wasn't presented to them at the time in Iran. Axmoun knew it would have taken him years to get playing time in Iran, JB was starting to play more for a bottom table PGL team, and Ezzi was just breaking through the 1st team of Malavan. which of these 3 scenarios would get them noticed by a TM head coach? the answer is none.......now we saw what moving to europe did.

[Kian Persepolis]

I never claimed to agree with the idea that CQ is "directly", or "indirectly" responsible for a few of our players playing in Europe.

but here is a question:

if you were a scout working with European clubs, wouldn't you be looking at some of the players that someone like Carlos Qeiroz is coaching? perhaps for some cheap bargains for second/third/fourth tier clubs?
our fans misjudge our coaches on both sides of the argument. naturally, understandable!

And to add on to that, CQ took away the mentality of Team Melli where if you were good at some point, you are guaranteed a starting spot, no matter your current fitness. Now, no one is guaranteed a starting spot unless they work hard for it. We've seen this countless times when people like Ando or Gucci have been benched because of mediocore performance. That in turn, creates more competition for the players, prompting them to move to Europe if they want to get better or stay fit in order to retain their spot on Team Melli.

[teammelli91]

I respect this man so much. Him and his team deserve so much better. So much better..

Andranik kodesh goft badaz bazie Saipa. Na lebas, na zamin, na camp, na barnamei..

Khak too oon sareshoon bokonan ke Team Melli moon dar sharayete badi hast. Khak too oon sareshoon bokonan.

Age Carlos raft, doa mikonan mardom berizan biroon va pooste sare hamatoono bekanan o bechasboonan be divarha.

[ferdyf]

The Players went to Europe to Show their skills to queiroz . If there would be a crappy vatani Coach like always they would do a shit and earn lesser money.
We have the best Coach in iranian history but some are sorry so stupid and maybe too proud

[ferdyf]

Dude watch under 18 world cups and tounaments, we always Show a good Performance and come to the next round. Its the Lack of of professionalism that destroys us at pro Level because of the Bad fields equips and so on

[EKBATAN]

i hope you're right about a bright future because as of now i cant see anyone being able to be consistent starter in top 5 league.