WC22 TM's preparation and friendlies

[PSGman#19]

At the same time our volleyball federation arranged friendlies with Argentina and serbia, our basketball and handball plays against spain, japan, Germany.
How hard is to set a fk friendly with "superpower" peru or cameroon??

An Iranian is leading Belgian FA and we couldn't even have a u23 or else friendly with them

[The]

You will get friendlies against Russia, Belarus, Venezuela, North Korea, Syria, The GreyZone XI and you will like it.

[Rooyintan]

At the same time our volleyball federation arranged friendlies with Argentina and serbia, our basketball and handball plays against spain, japan, Germany.
How hard is to set a fk friendly with "superpower" peru or cameroon??
An Iranian is leading Belgian FA and we couldn't even have a u23 or else friendly with them

Exactly. Here are other teams football friendlies.

El Salvador vs Argentina, April 27.
Guatemala vs Mexico, April 28.
Brazil vs Guatemala, May 30.
Italy vs Argentina, June 1.
Peru vs Morocco, June 5.
Japan vs Brazil, June 6.
USA vs Ghana, TBC.
Norway vs New Zealand, June 28.
UAE vs Brazil, November 12.

[Rooyintan]

You will get friendlies against Russia, Belarus, Venezuela, North Korea, Syria, The GreyZone XI and you will like it.

What you listed is actually good compared with Karbala XI, Najaf XI, Gaza XI, West Bank XI, Sanaa XI

[BacheLot]

Does TM currently even have a professional Fitness coach on payroll..!?

If not why !? & WTF are we waiting for !?


To me hiring a veteran, professional in this field is far more important than waiting in vain for a decent friendly to materialize..!

[mbaizai]

We need to work on our fitness. Imagine our defenders facing rahim sterling. Just imagine.

[PSGman#19]

We need to work on our fitness. Imagine our defenders facing rahim sterling. Just imagine.

What the point of fitness and preparation, if the headcoach play nourollahi, nurafkan and sarlak no matter their level?

[Ab-Gosht]

Team Melli had arranged friendly with USA but due to World Cup Draw that USA and Iran were in the same group, the friendly was not finalized and negotiations canceled.

Again, this is not true. This is only what estili and co said, but they always do, go look back 4 years, and then 8 years, you will see this is always what iran says.

[PSGman#19]

Again, this is not true. This is only what estili and co said, but they always do, go look back 4 years, and then 8 years, you will see this is always what iran says.

We had friendlies with England, usa, Ukraine, Scotland and wales set, but because of the draw, they are canceled

[ABalls]

Ugh, no friendlies yet and all of our European-based players are riding the bench right now except for Mehdi and Amir. Thank goodness the World Cup isn't in the summer...

[Ab-Gosht]

We had friendlies with England, usa, Ukraine, Scotland and wales set, but because of the draw, they are canceled

thank you!

[kaebi kabab]

6 page discussion of no prep in place...

[diz]

6 page discussion of no prep in place...

wait till you see the threads on Skocic in or out

[taremiscores]

As mentioned, it's not a sanctions thing or whatever - cause our basketball teams and volleyball teams and wrestling teams all get great friendlies and participate in top-level mini tournaments. All over the world.

Football is just highly politicized in IR Iran and lot of vultures around, who are looking to steal big money and make shady deals.

[diz]

As mentioned, it's not a sanctions thing or whatever - cause our basketball teams and volleyball teams and wrestling teams all get great friendlies and participate in top-level mini tournaments. All over the world.
Football is just highly politicized in IR Iran and lot of vultures around, who are looking to steal big money and make shady deals.

I agree that football is politicized and a cash cow in Iran, but given that large sums of international money are involved, it would certainly fall under sanctions restrictions. Basketball/volleyball/wrestling fees are peanuts compared to football. Add to that the banking restrictions to transfer money to Iran (if we accept an invite) or to the country we invite to play in Iran, and you can see how other countries may just shy away from it. Just for reference, France gets paid $1-2 million per friendly match. Even if we had that kind of money, how would Iran transfer that to the FFA?

How much do teams get paid for pre-World Cup friendlies?
National soccer teams get paid a fee for playing friendlies. The so-called appearance fee is a function of the team’s history, its current moment (e.g. France currently is paid an appearance fee of approximately US $1 million, but in times it was World Champion and Zinedine Zidane played the few was US$2 million), as well as the demographics of where the team plays. For example, Mexico matches in the United States have high fees due to the fact that most Hispanics are of Mexican origin and love soccer, says Mevy Pierre Azaria. “In fact, no other country has an exclusive contract with minimum appearances such as Mexico has with Soccer United Marketing (SUM),” he adds. Below is a table with an approximate amount of fees paid.

Appearance Fee (Aprox. in US $ millions)
Spain 2
Brazil 2
Argentina 2
Germany 2
France 1
Mexico (abroad except in the U.S.) 0.3
U.S. 0.2
Honduras 0.1
Guatemala 0.1
Honduras 0.1
El Salvador 0.1

https://www.portada-online.com/sport...r-mexico-cost/