This is a good question. I like it.
First of all, what does prosper mean?
Many here have mentioned volleyball as a comparison. In volley for the past 20 years we have essentially had 2 federation heads - Yazdani Khorram, and Davarzani.
Yazdani Khorram was very much a trial and error kind of guy - he made tons of mistakes, especially his first decade in charge, but in the early 2000s he and his team completely changed the focus of volleyball from top down to bottom up.
Youth volleyball very much became the priority. In a span of 5 years we had developed U-19 and U-21 teams that could compete on the world stage. Scouting camps were set up routinely all over Iran. Good players were discovered and developed. Coaching classes were provided to teach.
Eventually those players were moved to the senior team and had good world experience. We went from finishing 5th or 6th in Asia (simply due to being the strongest teams physically) to being a top 10 world squad. Our team is now at a level where last olympics our fans had a not too crazy expectation that we could perhaps even medal!
Now compare that to football!
Have we had any stability?
Have we had a focus on youth development?
Have we had a consistent vision that was implemented regardless of who the IFF head was?
Nope.
Our teams have done well simply because we had a random good coach, or usually random very good players.
So if volleyball can be so successful, why can't football?
Two reasons - money and politics.
Football worldwide attracts sleazy, dirty, loudmouth, kooche bazaari assholes. People who have no clue about modern football, but love the sport so they want to impose their views. Sometimes they're hands off, but that's almost always the exception.
Football, also for whatever reason, is the most popular for the general population. Political types (both pro and anti-Iran) view it as a way of winning favor for their views. In truth both should GTFO of football.
The money part is pretty simple too.
Even if we had a perfect youth system, we would lose all of them to top European clubs as soon as they're 18 or 19, simply because we can't compete with them financially.
There is enough money in football that the usual hyenas in Iran are always looking at it, but its nothing compared to what the costs of running a proper league is now, or the costs of stadiums, or tv rights (IRIB is another issue too)...
So in short, we won't reach our potential in football with IR, simply because they don't care or they're incompetent, and sometimes intentionally destructive. On top of all that we have the same issues any football loving nation has - dirty agents, poor planning, too any cooks in the kitchen. ...
First of all, what does prosper mean?
Many here have mentioned volleyball as a comparison. In volley for the past 20 years we have essentially had 2 federation heads - Yazdani Khorram, and Davarzani.
Yazdani Khorram was very much a trial and error kind of guy - he made tons of mistakes, especially his first decade in charge, but in the early 2000s he and his team completely changed the focus of volleyball from top down to bottom up.
Youth volleyball very much became the priority. In a span of 5 years we had developed U-19 and U-21 teams that could compete on the world stage. Scouting camps were set up routinely all over Iran. Good players were discovered and developed. Coaching classes were provided to teach.
Eventually those players were moved to the senior team and had good world experience. We went from finishing 5th or 6th in Asia (simply due to being the strongest teams physically) to being a top 10 world squad. Our team is now at a level where last olympics our fans had a not too crazy expectation that we could perhaps even medal!
Now compare that to football!
Have we had any stability?
Have we had a focus on youth development?
Have we had a consistent vision that was implemented regardless of who the IFF head was?
Nope.
Our teams have done well simply because we had a random good coach, or usually random very good players.
So if volleyball can be so successful, why can't football?
Two reasons - money and politics.
Football worldwide attracts sleazy, dirty, loudmouth, kooche bazaari assholes. People who have no clue about modern football, but love the sport so they want to impose their views. Sometimes they're hands off, but that's almost always the exception.
Football, also for whatever reason, is the most popular for the general population. Political types (both pro and anti-Iran) view it as a way of winning favor for their views. In truth both should GTFO of football.
The money part is pretty simple too.
Even if we had a perfect youth system, we would lose all of them to top European clubs as soon as they're 18 or 19, simply because we can't compete with them financially.
There is enough money in football that the usual hyenas in Iran are always looking at it, but its nothing compared to what the costs of running a proper league is now, or the costs of stadiums, or tv rights (IRIB is another issue too)...
So in short, we won't reach our potential in football with IR, simply because they don't care or they're incompetent, and sometimes intentionally destructive. On top of all that we have the same issues any football loving nation has - dirty agents, poor planning, too any cooks in the kitchen. ...
Don't forget IRI hanged Hoveyda (Iran Novin Party).
Remember RESPECT BEGETS RESPECT & 
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