Who was the most damaging coach for Team Melli?

[KC McElroy]

I still don’t get why alidoosti signed that letter. He’s a classy guy. Out of those who signed the letter, Allidoosti and panjali are classy guys. The rest, especially Bayani, mohammadkhani, and derakhshan were nothing but hashieh. If you give them an inch, they take a foot.

Players thought they can do whatever they want and abuse the rules so Dehdari reacted harshly.

Panjali's issue was getting alternated and benched for Mesgar Saravi that he considered a newbie and inferior.

[perspolis#1]

GN got a bad rep from 2007 AC because of the 2006 world cup fallout, team fracturing, and then the federation (being run by the olagh mullahs) got suspended for political interference right before the Asian cup and the government officials said "Who is FIFA to tell us how we run our country?". That stuff wasn't GN's fault but gets attributed to him.

Branko was the worst because he could only start the same XI with zero backup plan in case things went south. Comparing him to CQ is a desperate attempt by the PGL mafia because to my recollection, this guy couldn't even beat Angola and lost to a dire China with the greatest midfield Iran has ever had.

[Malkay]

Who?.

I suspect he's referring to Navidkia.

Also it's shameful that people could vote for CQ in this poll. Despite his occasional petulance (sometimes understandable as the IFF has been made up of a revolving door of inept jokers for some time) and false dawn of a 2nd tenure (which should have started much earlier or not at all)... He's the highest quality coach we've had in my lifetime. Some of the bums we've had before and since aren't fit to have their names uttered in the same sentence, let alone ranked above him by way of those votes.

[oracle]

GN got a bad rep from 2007 AC because of the 2006 world cup fallout, team fracturing, and then the federation (being run by the olagh mullahs) got suspended for political interference right before the Asian cup and the government officials said "Who is FIFA to tell us how we run our country?". That stuff wasn't GN's fault but gets attributed to him.

Branko was the worst because he could only start the same XI with zero backup plan in case things went south. Comparing him to CQ is a desperate attempt by the PGL mafia because to my recollection, this guy couldn't even beat Angola and lost to a dire China with the greatest midfield Iran has ever had.

Not a bronko fan more as years go by.
but that China match we went down to 10 man, if not tm would of won that match and that team
no quationed in my mined would of beat Japan in final..we got 0-0draw with japan in gs ,and japan barleybeat jordan in pks if I recall correctly...
2004 AC WAS IN TM HAND JUST like 1996 was and choked that one too😥

[perspolis#1]

Not a bronko fan more as years go by.
but that China match we went down to 10 man, if not tm would of won that match and that team
no quationed in my mined would of beat Japan in final..we got 0-0draw with japan in gs ,and japan barleybeat jordan in pks if I recall correctly...
2004 AC WAS IN TM HAND JUST like 1996 was and choked that one too😥

I watched that Asian cup in Iran one of last times I went. Iran-Japan game was nervy affair but Iran-Oman we celebrated Nosrati's equalizer goal like Iniesta's world cup winning goal

[oracle]

I watched that Asian cup in Iran one of last times I went. Iran-Japan game was nervy affair but Iran-Oman we celebrated Nosrati's equalizer goal like Iniesta's world cup winning goal

😀
that game with Oman even though 2-2
But forever will stay in majority of fans heart and mined...
KIA CHEATED AND PUT THE BALL FEW YARD FORWARD but it was still far away free kick lol
I GIVE KIA ALL THE CREDIT....should of won that 2004 ac. We had everything.....IF WE HAD KHODADAD we might of beat China even going down to 10 man...

[DR Strangemoosh]

I suspect he's referring to Navidkia.

Also it's shameful that people could vote for CQ in this poll. Despite his occasional petulance (sometimes understandable as the IFF has been made up of a revolving door of inept jokers for some time) and false dawn of a 2nd tenure (which should have started much earlier or not at all)... He's the highest quality coach we've had in my lifetime. Some of the bums we've had before and since aren't fit to have their names uttered in the same sentence, let alone ranked above him by way of those votes.

Nope, a player who emerged fully formed, both-footed, good tactical awareness, dead ball specialist.

He won the player of the year award although for some really weird reason they didn't announce it as a prize award for (the only) two consecutive seasons, still don't know why...

He was branko's favourite player, aged 22, until they fell out over the dynamo move and he was blacklisted. Mobali. It really impacted his career trajectory. When I saw him play those first few seasons i thought he was possibly the most complete footballer Iran have ever made but it took him almost a decade to recover after the Branko effect . He was never the same player as his age 22-23 period

[PSGman#19]

Nope, a player who emerged fully formed, both-footed, good tactical awareness, dead ball specialist.

He won the player of the year award although for some really weird reason they didn't announce it as a prize award for (the only) two consecutive seasons, still don't know why...

He was branko's favourite player, aged 22, until they fell out over the dynamo move and he was blacklisted. Mobali. It really impacted his career trajectory. When I saw him play those first few seasons i thought he was possibly the most complete footballer Iran have ever made but it took him almost a decade to recover after the Branko effect . He was never the same player as his age 22-23 period

It was completely dumb from him to reject dinamo zagreb offer. The guy only explore IPL/qatar in his career

[Azmoun_shireh]

Worst coach was Daei unfortunately. I know he had little experience and it's not like he had much talent to work with but 2010 WC qualification was squandered because of his results. Losing to Saudi at home was unacceptable and cost us that WC birth

We should've been at the 2010 WC. The Saudi and NK team were shit. We should've atleast got the 3rd place spot

The Daei era was a wild rollercoaster. His anger issues and interviews were insane.

[milad_b]

whoever thinks losing to saudi at home (watched by only saudi and iranian fans) is more embrassing than losing a world cup game against england by 6 goals watched Internationally, NEEDS to get their head checked out.

Ali daei wasn't great but he was deffo NOT the most damaging coach for Team Melli.

[perspolis#1]

The Daei era was a wild rollercoaster. His anger issues and interviews were insane.

For me this interview cemented Ali Daei to me as a beacon, an Oghab, a Simurgh, a Rostam in the face of the evil Arab Football Confederation.

Yallah Iran, Yallah Team Melli, Yalla Sarhang Ali Daeeeeeeee

[Essi]

The question IMO is maybe not formulated correctly somehow. I mean damaging sounds too harsh but anyway I would select Branko. He had by far the most talented team Iran ever had with lot of players in their prime time, but h only managed 3 places in AC 2004 when we had a golden opportunity to at least go to the final. And please dont come with bad luck with referee and penalties and so on. We should have demolished the China team before we ended up in that situation. Also in WC 2006, we could have done much better vs both Mexico and Angola. If there were issues in the team with Daei, Karimi and whoever, it was his damn duty to make sure those issues be resolved, either to have balls like CQ to exclude trouble player or solve it. I will never ever forgive Branko for WC2006. It was one of the most disappointing performances having a team with so many expectations and hope.

[DR Strangemoosh]

Pourheydari was a gentleman but his football was stuck in the 80s. He also believed in that horrible hidden rule that you have to call up equal number of Persepolis and Esteghlal players. Guys like Helali and Hamadani were starting under him for goodness sake.

I agree completely that his calling up of sub-par Red and Blue players was awful, but that post-1998 team really lost all its shine within months.

When we lost against Kuwait 3-0 just two months after the world cup (with Karimi, Mahdavikia, Azizi, Daei etc..) it was clear that without a good goalkeeper and solid defence this wasn't a great team : https://www.teammelli.com/matchdata/...ls.php?id=2190

After he fully took over we didn't lose for a huge number of games, with standouts being the Denmark, Japan games. the only loss after his first camp was against Mexico in Oakland, at a time when Azizi was chasing chubby short girls and the team was a little fractured. I genuinely think that if he had not been influenced so much my PP and EsEs hierarchy he could have built a much better unit long-term than Talebi.

[IRN Rugby Playa]

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[Hosseini]

whoever thinks losing to saudi at home (watched by only saudi and iranian fans) is more embrassing than losing a world cup game against england by 6 goals watched Internationally, NEEDS to get their head checked out.

Ali daei wasn't great but he was deffo NOT the most damaging coach for Team Melli.

What on earth are you on about?

Losing to Saudi at home virtually got us booted from making the WC in 2010. We made the 2022 WC. Obviously losing a key game to a major regional rival at home in front of 100k home supporters is way worse than the 6-2 loss no one really cares about anymore

We were gonna lose to England regardless, we had a chance to make it to the next round despite that and came within a razor thin margin