Mohammad Reza Azadi @ Panetolikos FC | 2020-21

[Gol Bezan]

Official confirmation: https://www.panetolikos.gr/trietes-s...e-reza-azanti/

[pajamNL]

another young attacker in his first steppingstone towards success; go for it, we will cheer for you

[Ghermez Agha]

Another Iranian striker in Europe! I’m losing count now

[The]

Good to see more young players making these jumps early in their career rather than making these moves in their late 20s.

Between this kid, Deelfi and Allayar, we're bound to have at least one replacement for Sardar/Mehdi/Kaveh by the 2026 world cup.

Now let's hope we can get a some U-21 Midfielders and Defenders in Europe.

[PrinceAli]

How is it that we somehow only manage to send strikers to Europe lol. Good for him, love the mentality to move to a foreign country and develop his game

Definitely need some midfield and back line players soon too

[PEJ]

How is it that we somehow only manage to send strikers to Europe lol. Good for him, love the mentality to move to a foreign country and develop his game

Definitely need some midfield and back line players soon too

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Honestly it’s actually pretty easy answer. Playing a striker on the pitch has to do a lot with physicality and technique. Playing a midfield position puts much more emphasis on Football IQ. Football IQ is usually developed at a very young age with proper coaching and system. And that is something we lack in Iran.

[PrinceAli]

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Honestly it’s actually pretty easy answer. Playing a striker on the pitch has to do a lot with physicality and technique. Playing a midfield position puts much more emphasis on Football IQ. Football IQ is usually developed at a very young age with proper coaching and system. And that is something we lack in Iran.

thats true but we’ve also had prospects that could’ve easily gone to Europe and made a proper career for themselves there. Shekari didn’t work out and Idek what happened with Mohammad Sharifi. Wasnt he supposed to be the star of that u17 team a couple years ago? He hasn’t really shown much but who knows

I’m hopeful with Kia FC we’ll have some other players make it soon

[Sepehr9]

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Honestly it’s actually pretty easy answer. Playing a striker on the pitch has to do a lot with physicality and technique. Playing a midfield position puts much more emphasis on Football IQ. Football IQ is usually developed at a very young age with proper coaching and system. And that is something we lack in Iran.

Football IQ is not the reason why on average more forwards move to Europe in comparison to midfielders (or defenders and goalkeepers). We have had plenty of good midfielders throughout history, Ali Parvin, Ghelichkhani, Fonoonizadeh, Estili, Bagheri, Mansourian, Dinmohamadi, Nekounam, Teymourian, Mobali, Ali Karimi, Shojaei, Navidkia, Ebrahimi etc etc. These are all examples of midfielders with a good football IQ. The reason that (in comparison) more forwards have the opportunity to play in Europe is because they stand out more due to the fact that they score (more) goals and hence are more in the spotlight. Considering that Iran is not exactly known for its football in Europe, nor deemed attractive for their football market, our goalkeepers, defenders and midfielders are less appealing for European clubs.

Even our own football football fans are complaining why Ezatolahi is not scoring goals and giving assists, not understanding that as a central midfielder he has different qualities and role in the team.

[The Realist]

When you look at a Low-scoring Iranian league (lots of 0-0 and 1-0s) and the fact that you can become the leauge top scorer with 15 goals (most likely a foreign player), you wonder how we are exporting strikers. Furthermore with Taremi, ARJ, Sardar, Kaveh, amongst their current or former leagues top scorer, you wonder how we are producing this new crop of players.

If exported directly from our league, they can only be “special” otherwise these players have developed their game outside Iran. We have slowed down now but we had Neku, Karimi, shojaei, Omid, Ando, Bagheri, Saeid (Current) and defenders like Repair, Hosseini (current), kaebi, Mimo (current). These have had different degrees of success. What differentiate them is the ability to handle the physical side of European play and not pick up long term injuries, etc. with another driver being lack of speed. These all come from early player development and environment which both go against our players.

Leagues in Portugal, Holland, Belgium, Greece, Turkey and to an extent England have learned that costing very little, Iranian players can make or begin to cope, it’s a journey for us. minor leagues in Croatia, Azerbaijan, Denmark, Norway, Ukraine are picking up Iranians too.

This can only be a revolution and may it continue.
participation in two consecutive World Cups have helped tremendously. It is imparative that we qualify for the third consecutive World Cup.

[PEJ]

Football IQ is not the reason why on average more forwards move to Europe in comparison to midfielders (or defenders and goalkeepers). We have had plenty of good midfielders throughout history, Ali Parvin, Ghelichkhani, Fonoonizadeh, Estili, Bagheri, Mansourian, Dinmohamadi, Nekounam, Teymourian, Mobali, Ali Karimi, Shojaei, Navidkia, Ebrahimi etc etc. These are all examples of midfielders with a good football IQ. The reason that (in comparison) more forwards have the opportunity to play in Europe is because they stand out more due to the fact that they score (more) goals and hence are more in the spotlight. Considering that Iran is not exactly known for its football in Europe, nor deemed attractive for their football market, our goalkeepers, defenders and midfielders are less appealing for European clubs.
Even our own football football fans are complaining why Ezatolahi is not scoring goals and giving assists, not understanding that as a central midfielder he has different qualities and role in the team.

So what you are saying is that these European scouts, whose sole job is to analyze each player extensively and determine suitability for their clubs, just look at the stat sheet when it comes to Iranian player?

Ali Karimi, no doubt the most talented Iranian player ever, was not a high IQ football player in his youth. He didn’t really learn how to play one touch football till he went to Munich. All he ever wanted to do was dribble through the whole team. Typical of many of our other super talented players in their youth. And it’s not their fault, it’s the systems fault.

The most perfect example of this is right in front of our face. Guys like Ashkan, Saman, Gucci and evening Zandi were much more advanced mentally. None of those guys except Ashkan would have had the same level of success if they were not brought up in the European football system.

[Karimi 8]

Amazing move!!! We have so many strikers in Europe loool. Hopefully some midfielders start moving soon !

[Babak agha]

^Not only were this players mentally better, they were technically a head and shoulder above our players at well (outside Karimi and maybe Shojaei). Just compare their shooting/passing technique & first touches and you see most Iranian aren't even comparable.

Although their mentality probably has played a big part in their development, when you see that a player is head and shoulder above the rest of the team within minutes the thing that you are witnessing is their quality.

Just ask yourself who were the last Iranian players who could properly shoot from outside of the box. You have to go all the way back to Nekounam and Mobali for that and before them Bagheri.

Now ask your self who could properly cross a ball.. Mahdavikia, Navidkia, Karimi..

Our players are way underdeveloped both mentally and technically and we should thank God some of our players leave Iran at 18 to catch up.

[PrinceAli]

^Not only were this players mentally better, they were technically a head and shoulder above our players at well (outside Karimi and maybe Shojaei). Just compare their shooting/passing technique & first touches and you see most Iranian aren't even comparable.

Although their mentality probably has played a big part in their development, when you see that a player is head and shoulder above the rest of the team within minutes the thing that you are witnessing is their quality.

Just ask yourself who were the last Iranian players who could properly shoot from outside of the box. You have to go all the way back to Nekounam and Mobali for that and before them Bagheri.

Now ask your self who could properly cross a ball.. Mahdavikia, Navidkia, Karimi..

Our players are way underdeveloped both mentally and technically and we should thank God some of our players leave Iran at 18 to catch up.

never disrespect Ando again

[Babak agha]

Although I somewhat agree and for Iranian standards Ando was an absolute beast in that department, I think his shooting technique wasn't as good as those other players. Bit yes let's include Ando as well.

Still this list is amazingly thing for a nation that claims to be technically superior.

[Ararat Tehran]

Although I somewhat agree and for Iranian standards Ando was an absolute beast in that department, I think his shooting technique wasn't as good as those other players. Bit yes let's include Ando as well.

Still this list is amazingly thing for a nation that claims to be technically superior.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feEesodyDFc