Which Vatani coach do you prefer for assistant coach of TM?

[teammelli91]

Okay, I missed Markar Aghajanian. He’s a crucial piece. He has a lot of knowledge and information saved up upstairs. As far as being a head coach I think even he isn’t interested. But for your question, do to his 7 year experience working alongside Carlito, then he is the first option.

However, if the question is specific to coaching and experience as a coach then I’d pick Hashemian as he had a longer career, played many more crucial games. Understands how a team functions/should function under pressure (whether at Hannover or under Branko). He is a very smart football thinking individual. Anyone can tell this just by watching him speak for 1 hour about football.

But because Markar has an upper hand during this crucial and scary time with the current situation Team Melli is in (losses vs Iraq and Bahrain), I strongly choose Markar.

[Foolad Khuzestan]

I dont really think that Markar is a coach, he surely worked for TM but was he really involved in anything ? In training ok but in decisions and tactics ?

[teammelli91]

I dont really think that Markar is a coach, he surely worked for TM but was he really involved in anything ? In training ok but in decisions and tactics ?

I agree with you. In fact Markar was an analyst who was hand picked by Carlos because they were staying at the same hotel. Markar is a risk as assistant coach, BUT, because of his vast knowledge he has to be there as the assistant or one of the assistant coaches. There’s a recent interview with him online. This guy has enough information and knows precise statistics about a list of over 150 players that it could take Wilmots a whole year to catch up (when he was the coach). So it’s not really that he has the best coaching ability. It’s everything he’s got stored in his brain. The guy said it was asked, he could run every type of training Carlos ran for Iran and continue his way of football with Iran if he was given the coaching opportunity. But he wasn’t and even he kind of knows that he would’ve much rather been picked as a dastyar for Wilmots. However the timing wasn’t right and The IFF did not reach out. I personally think had Markar been by Wilmots side for the 5-6 months he was coaching Team Melli, we may have not gotten the same results. And I agree.