Congrats to Iran's Vollyball team, We are the Champions

[soheil86]

so what did they win?asian cup?

[Kaveh]

the only reason our basketball and volleyball is succeeding is because no one cares about them there is no pressure and most important the government is not screwing around in the Federation

that's probably one of the main reasons.

[Kaveh]

so what did they win?asian cup?

they are the world champions,
beating big names like, Brazil, Poland, France and China.

[Siavash]

2ROOD BAR JAVANANE IRANZAMIN
WE ARE PROUD OF YOU.
YOU MAKE our BOOLD BOIL.
YOU BRING TEERS OF JOY TO our EYES.
WE LOVE YOU KIDS.

[1Heesham1]

i was pleasently suprised by the high level of teamwork by our lads...

the china team had a few lamp posts on theirs who played well, but they fully deserved the win.

mashallah!!

[niceland]

Cant wait for the Olympic's gold

[niceland]

Cant wait for the Olympic's gold

[Roozbeh-G2006]

Congratulations

Why is it that we are up there with the world champions in most sports when we are young but when we grow older the gap grows so wide we cannot even get into the same tournaments?

Is it because they enjoy sophisticated sport infrastructure that trains them to become the world champions but we, despite being born as champions, through mismanagement and mediocre sport infrastructure become sad losers?

[Ali Chicago]

A lot of you probably are surprised by this, but the volleyball renewal in Iran started about 15-20 years ago with a guy called Yazdani Khorram as the head of Volleyball fedeation. They brought a guy called Boganeeyook who at that time went to Junior high schools and picked taller guy and tested them for sport abilities. For those who follow volleyball in Iran probably heard of guys like Torkashvand and Behname Mahmoodi.or Iraj Mozaffari. I beleive these two guys are among the first students of Booghaneeyhook.

At that time, Iran wasn't a name even in Asia in Volley ball, beating a Korean or Japaneese or a Chineese team in Asia was close to a Miracle.

I think then they brought a Japaneese coach who was called Matsoo Motto or something like that. That guy I heard was very disciplined. These guys helped to develope our local coaches like Mr. Karkhaneh, Iraj Mozafari, Khojasteh, etc. etc.

Don't want to bore you guys with all these history lesson, but point is Yazdani Khorram as a great federation head sow the seeds of a great volleyball for Iran almost 20 years ago. He didnt' make a lot of noise and was under the radar but he brought in good coaches and for a while he didn't care that we are not winning, he invested. Rest is history now.

The result of all that work started to bear fruit in 2001 when our u19 came second in the world (below Poland I think). Then for a couple of years our teams were very good but no medals. On 2007 our U21 came third in the world (that is world not Asia) in Morroco. Our Senior team cleanly beats, China, Asia, Japan in Asia. And hopoefully, if we continue like this, soon these youger guys will come to our senior team and we will be a force to reckon with at Senior level as well. Culmination was last night u19 WORLD championship. Did you hear WORLD. Our vollebyball clubs are among the best now in Asia at least.

Moral of the story is to have a good head of federation who beleive in long term planning , work without a lot of noise and have patience. We need to invest in our youth and improve our coaching staff.

One last point I would like to add is the fact that Mr. Yazdani Khorram now left Volleyball federation and is the head of the wrestling federation and already started long term planning and putting a system in Wrestling federation. The new head of the Volleyball federation is Mr. Davarzani which pretty much follows the same plan who were put in place long time ago by Mr. Yazdnai Khorram.

[princeofpersia1]

Has Iran qualified for Olympic Volleyball?

[BacheLot]

can we have the final game on pftv??
i missed all games...!

[niceland]

A lot of you probably are surprised by this, but the volleyball renewal in Iran started about 15-20 years ago with a guy called Yazdani Khorram as the head of Volleyball fedeation. They brought a guy called Boganeeyook who at that time went to Junior high schools and picked taller guy and tested them for sport abilities. For those who follow volleyball in Iran probably heard of guys like Torkashvand and Behname Mahmoodi.or Iraj Mozaffari. I beleive these two guys are among the first students of Booghaneeyhook.
At that time, Iran wasn't a name even in Asia in Volley ball, beating a Korean or Japaneese or a Chineese team in Asia was close to a Miracle.
I think then they brought a Japaneese coach who was called Matsoo Motto or something like that. That guy I heard was very disciplined. These guys helped to develope our local coaches like Mr. Karkhaneh, Iraj Mozafari, Khojasteh, etc. etc.
Don't want to bore you guys with all these history lesson, but point is Yazdani Khorram as a great federation head sow the seeds of a great volleyball for Iran almost 20 years ago. He didnt' make a lot of noise and was under the radar but he brought in good coaches and for a while he didn't care that we are not winning, he invested. Rest is history now.
Our youth I think it is u19 came second in the world (below Poland maybe). Our U21 came third in the world (that is world not Asia) in Morroco. Our Senior team cleanly beats, China, Asia, Japan in Asia. And hopefully, if we continue like this, soon these youger guys will come to our senior team and we will be a force to reckon with at Senior level as well.
Moral of the story is to have a good head of federation who beleive in long term planning , work without a lot of noise and have patient. We need to invest in our youth and improve our coaching staff.

pretty informative and true I should say...

[Arashi_Washi]

I posted this in the IRINN NEWS Aswell...

Every player and STAFF of this Champins Team are set to recieve US $15.000and a Samand Satir Car for their Well Deserved Achievement.....

[Babak agha]

which age category was this anyways...
BTW I heard Iran is also Asia's mens Karate champion beating Japan....
Things are getting better and better, hope our wrestling and weightlifting will come back at the same level it once was. Then we will be one good SPORTING NATION baby

[Amin_]

Ok time to be moved to the general sport forum.