Is it OK to cry?

[Cups1234]

So just to make sure I understand, we have to wait another four years for any TM excitement? What do other TM fans follow in the meantime?

[persiangodfather]

So just to make sure I understand, we have to wait another four years for any TM excitement? What do other TM fans follow in the meantime?

Consider yourself lucky

[shahabGAOL]

As the best of Asia we are so i expected a WIN

[eerooni]

I just want to crawl under a rock and wallow in misery for a week, Im depressed beyond hope! Nothing you all say can change that! I was waiting since 1984 to win this cup when I first gazed my eyes on TM, SINCE 1984 PEOPLE!! 2019, This cup was ours, I knew it, you knew it, CQ Knew it, the team knew it, IFF knew it, 80 Million Iranians knew, HECK even the BEIN sports commentators knew it! and what ?? we lose 3-0 to a Japan that barely beat Turkmenistan???? Frak That!!! This is ABSURD!!! IM PISSED and YES! I do want to cry.......eerooni out...

[KC McElroy]

So just to make sure I understand, we have to wait another four years for any TM excitement? What do other TM fans follow in the meantime?

World Cup qualifiers.

[teammelli8080]

What is so beautiful about this team is that they are a truly from the people and for the people. Watching them feels like an escape from the constant barrage of corruption, frustration, and depression that seems to be seeping out of every other outlet in the country. It's like catching a small window of the resilience and passion that shines through in spite of all the obstacles in our way. At the same time, they're still held back fundamentally by the aforementioned issues.

Iran is economically and politically far behind our sporting rivals. I dont want to begin to explain the years of clean, proper investment and framework it took to get the Japanese to be able to control and pass the ball the way they did today.

But what is so enamoring about our team is that in spite of not having any of that, our team still holds its own. The 11 players on the pitch are still in their own way a miracle. They may not have top tier technique or refined skills but they still made it to the top tiers of football driven purely by the passion our entire nation has for football. That's why I can never feel like they owe me anything, I can never place an unreasonable expectation on them. All I ask is that they try their hardest and really that's enough to make me happy. I think Quieroz saw the same thing, I think that's why he loved his team so much.

Japan was a robotic, efficient, modern team. Iran was a poetic team; we play with the same passion you read in a Rumi poem and self destruct in the same image he portrays. That's in my opinion part of why we love the team so much too. Not only is it a connection for many of us to a country we've found ourself distant to, but the team itself is in many ways a reflection of ourselves and our own culture.

I think after today everybody has a lot of thoughts going through their head. I know that I need to take a big break from PFDC for a little bit, it's been A LOT lately.

This is a wonderful post and should be highlighted.

[teammelli91]

That’s what I did once I got home today.. Couldn’t keep it inside any longer.. It’s okay to cry.

[Karimi 8]

Biggest loss of today was losing Carlos.

[Karimi 8]

That’s what I did once I got home today.. Couldn’t keep it inside any longer.. It’s okay to cry.

Me too man. Went to work 9:00-5:00 walked out at 5:01 and called my mom crying haha. Couldn’t hold it in anymore and the anger has turned to pure sadness.

[Foolad Khuzestan]

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I just want to crawl under a rock and wallow in misery for a week, Im depressed beyond hope! Nothing you all say can change that! I was waiting since 1984 to win this cup when I first gazed my eyes on TM, SINCE 1984 PEOPLE!! 2019, This cup was ours, I knew it, you knew it, CQ Knew it, the team knew it, IFF knew it, 80 Million Iranians knew, HECK even the BEIN sports commentators knew it! and what ?? we lose 3-0 to a Japan that barely beat Turkmenistan???? Frak That!!! This is ABSURD!!! IM PISSED and YES! I do want to cry.......eerooni out...

The passes japan played today were world class, i dont know if we were to beat them.

[eliz3p]

totally ok for anyone to cry. guy n gal. u wun be crying alone.

[MR.ESTESNAII]

Just our country we will never shine until the akhoonds go ...I guess we shall wait another 40 years

[Tehranto]

Tears welled-up in my eyes.

Carlos Queiroz arrives in Tehran: https://twitter.com/PersianFutbol/st...12715028123648 (video)

[Tehranto]

Seems a ton of players got emotional as they said their goodbyes to Carlos.

[persian4life]

wheres the video