Iran is number one in Asia & Group A winners

[Preezy]

Congratulations!!

Iran has won Group A for the third consecutive time with Korea finishing runners up, over a 12 year period. Incredible achievement.

Iran has qualified to three consecutive World Cups for the first time in history. Incredible achievement.

Iran heads to the World Cup draws as Asia's #1 in FIFA rankings. Incredible achievement.

This is the real victory, not the match against South Korea away when Iran had already qualified with half the starters missing.
Also, the starters were key players. South Korea is much weaker without Son. That's just one player. We were missing our star players such as Taremi, JB, etc. Even Azmoun was, and still is recovering.


Standings:
Iran 25 pts
South Korea 23 pts

We dropped 0 points against any of the four Arab teams in the group, something we have not accomplished before, which makes this more impressive because we're even topping our own records mentioned above. That makes it that much more impressive.

Iran will represent Asia as the best team.

This is the ultimate asian glory.



This thread is about celebration and positivity.

I will however open another thread at the request of other members to address the actions that are necessary to be taken to have the perfect squad for the World Cup. I'm already working on it, since it's very detailed.


Iran also has an outside chance to get pot 2 if Portugal, Senegal and Sweden don't qualify which is highly unlikely but possible.

Either way, this has been a perfect day considering that if Japan had won at home vs Vietnam, then they would've been number one in Asia, which now is our honor. Also, South Korea would've won the group had they defeated UAE, which they failed to do.

Congrats!

[O-ZoNe]

Congratulations!!

Iran has won Group A for the third consecutive time with Korea finishing runners up, over a 12 year period. Incredible achievement.

Iran has qualified to three consecutive World Cups for the first time in history. Incredible achievement.

Iran heads to the World Cup draws as Asia's #1 in FIFA rankings. Incredible achievement.

This is the real victory, not the match against South Korea away when Iran had already qualified with half the starters missing.
Also, the starters where key players. South Korea is much weaker without Son. That's just one player. We were missing our star players such as Taremi, JB, etc. Even Azmoun was, and still is recovering.


Standings:
Iran 25 pts
South Korea 23 pts

We dropped 0 points against any of the four Arab teams in the group, something we have not accomplished before, which makes this more impressive because we're even topping our own records mentioned above. That makes it that much more impressive.

Iran will represent Asia as the best team.

This is the ultimate asian glory.



This thread is about celebration and positivity.

I will however open another thread at the request of other members to address the actions that are necessary to be taken to have the perfect squad for the World Cup. I'm already working on it, since it's very detailed.



Iran also has an outside chance to get pot 2 if Portugal, Senegal and Sweden don't qualify which is highly unlikely but possible.

Either way, this has been a perfect day considering that if Japan had won at home vs Vietnam, then they would've been number one in Asia, which now is our honor. Also, South Korea would've won the group had they defeated UAE, which they failed to do.

Congrats!

Congrats all. Underestimate no one. Our hard work begins today!

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[mehdi13]

Ultimate asian glory is mohtaje UAE budan? What a glory.

[ParthianDE]

Congrats. Great achievement!

Regarding pot 2 or 3, we will know by the end of the day, right?

[peiman92]

Congrats all. Underestimate no one. Our hard work begins today!

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Yeah it does! First step: Find a good coach.

[Preezy]

Ultimate asian glory is mohtaje UAE budan? What a glory.

This is about titles. You cannot achieve a bigger glory than topping your group and finishing first in Asia.

This is not about our gap from other nations and our own issues.

Even if Iran had the best team in the world, you cannot go above the title of first in Asia and topping group A, in regards to the qualifiers. On top of that, we have broken records in combination to this as I've mentioned above.

I made it clear that this is about celebration and that I will address the issues we have in a detailed post. Let's be positive today.

[Ali.Karimi79]

Yeah it does! First step: Find a good coach.

And then?
Think further. A good coach … even a world class coach can‘t fix our deep rooted problems.
How would any good coach want to work in Iran when we sack Skocic right now, Astaghfirullah.
Skocic did better than anyone expected.
He earned his spot and will be our coach at the World Cup. Period.

[Preezy]

Some of you need to change your mindset.

The fact that we qualified to the World Cup as Asias number one and top of Group A means that we will receive more praise by the media. They will have to address us as Asias #1 at the World Cup draws which everyone tunes in to. This is an honor.

We will be more respected by scouts. More eyes will be on us. The two main goals of the World Cup for us is always to achieve good results but also to get scouted and have more players in Europe.

[PSGman#19]

And then?
Think further. A good coach … even a world class coach can‘t fix our deep rooted problems.
How would any good coach want to work in Iran when we sack Skocic right now, Astaghfirullah.
Skocic did better than anyone expected.
He earned his spot and will be our coach at the World Cup. Period.

Exactly, the spotlights should be on lazy and incompetent IFF for not providing a good preparation

[persiangodfather]

Japan won asian cup they are the best

[Preezy]

Japan won asian cup they are the best

The World Cup hosts, Qatar won it. However, they are the first nation in history to participate in the World Cup without having ever qualified through qualifiers. At least they are the Asian champions which benefits their stature.

They are also the lowest ranked asian team, ranked 50.

[Preezy]

My rep power suddenly jumped with 500 points. How does this work?

Thank you guys for giving me rep, appreciate you all.

[inarsenewetrust]

Exactly, the spotlights should be on lazy and incompetent IFF for not providing a good preparation

coach needs to put pressure on federation to provide the best possible preparation. previously CQ managed to do that with:

- 1 day a week minimum domestic players @ PEC for recovery/fitness sessions and individualized fitness programs in year prior to WC. The difference was amiri, ebrahimi running more than anybody there and being our best players. This same thing can easily happen with somebody like Mehdipour, Noorafkan if addressed ASAP. Coach needs to DEMAND it. The team did not run out of gas in the final critical game, in fact the opposite. It will be the most pathetic thing if we have golden chance to advance and we dont because of something so fixable like FITNESS.

- Using combination of personal contacts + extreme pressure on IFF to get best friendly schedule in leadup to WC ever (and notice it still wasnt enough bc team was so stressed vs the top caliber opponents we ended up having to face in spain and portugal that we wasted the first 20-30 mins of every game barely connecting two passes). Tunisia, Algeria, Uzbekistan, Turkey, Russia, Venezuela, Panama, Lithuania was our prep. It was much better than nothing, but still it lacked 1-2 top oppositions (croatia level or higher). Skocic needs to be more aggressive in demanding this and using his own contacts, however limited, to help out.

In Iran, management does jack shit. Just look at the state of the country. People in managerial positions are usually ill qualified, corrupt, and useless. It is up to professionals to demand better and help facilitate getting the max out of the idiots at the top. I know it is not the normal remit of a football coach, but Skocic has to modify if TM is to succeed.

[milad_b]

Great Post . You've said it all.

People will get it if they want to, If they don't then we can't help them. So no point arguing with them bro. They just hate skocic for whatever reason and they refuse to accept the facts.

I was against Skocic at first but the way he has perfomed totally changed my mind about him.

The only time we should talk about manager change is after WC.

Tabrik migam be tamame tarafdaran team melli iran. Enjoy this results guys!

[ashaf]

how could we make pot 2? and why would we know by end of day? isn't based on Fifa rankings which are out on the 31st?