WC22 TM's preparation and friendlies

[Nokhodi]

Hopefully he got very surprised with his scouting mission Bet he didn't even consider the fact that we would win.

He wrote an article which was 90% political and mostly had talking points from some guy named Pashaei who wants Iran banned from all sports.

[Raptor]

He did however name Iran as a possible surprise team in the World Cup (just after the draw in April). That was interesting to hear because most other pundits on ESPN only talked about the US game against England. They barely mentioned Iran as one of the opponents.

Watch the clip from 3:42:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TADV6INXgWM&t=281s

[PSGman#19]

Algeria B, Uruguay, Senegal, Nicaragua, Tunisia was a good preparation considering the circumstance.

Unfortunately we started the WC with England which is the stronger team we face since decade. Playing Wales and USA before england would have prepared to face England in the last game.

Some mistakes we made :

- using lot of useless players in all these friendlies to finally understand they are TM material (Noorafkan, Sarlak). PFDC members were saying it from day one!
- Not using what was functionning in these friendlies and wcq (Ezza at DM, Kanaani +Shoja at CB). Playing straight some players that were on the fridge wince 4 years ago (PAG, Cheshmi, AK).
- the line up destabilize more ourselves that England.