Originally posted by khodam
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But that’s totally true. He was playmaking for ghosts. Ali Daei seemed as though he wasn’t there in the playoffs. He did good before that in the group stages but then was absent on the field vs Ireland. Such a tragedy. More tragic than missing out on South Africa 2010. There would have been 0 chance for Ghotbi’s Gholami and Pejman Nouri to carry Team Melli out of group like the one North Korea was in.
Don’t get me wrong, I was a fan of Ghotbi because of his positive nature. But looking back at it, had we kept it 1-0 in South Korea and qualified we would have faced Ivory Coast Portugal and Brazil. The holy f*** group.
The 2001 group were just beginning to mold and it was just heartbreaking.
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