Congrats to South Korea and Japan

[Daffi]

Both have played great football thus far and seem to have progressed well over the last four years.
....while we have only regressed.

Good luck to both East Asians in their up coming games.

And the Kiwis also did themselves proud.

[amir85]

Wrong forum...

[I Walk Alone]

lol i dont get it. why we should proud of our rivals ?

how much we are miserable.

[shayan20]

Japan's success is because of this guy.He deserves to be the Asian player of the year. head and shoulders above anyone else on the pitch. strong physically, fast and good technique and so unselfish. perfect player.

[Kaveh Ahangar]

I am happy for Japan and South Korea, and wish them all the best. I would much rather see them do well than crappy grassrolling teams (which didn't qualify this time).

[saeed_noro]

lol i dont get it. why we should proud of our rivals ?

how much we are miserable.

Because if we are for Africa or South America (5 of 5 in the finals!) than we will have in the upcoming WC Qualifications only 4 or 3.5 WC starter places.

You want this??

Every continent must be behind his own continent, or do you like to see south africa snapping 1 places or even the relegation 0.5 places away from us???

We are lucky, bringing 2 teams to next round, and africa only 1 from 5. and north america also has usa and mexico out of 3 teams!

we are also lucky, that only 6 european advaned, and only 32 will reach next round, because all teams play each other..

For WC Qualification places = more chances to qualify and vice versa....

[HuSsAiN]

lol i dont get it. why we should proud of our rivals ?

how much we are miserable.

We should take a lesson from them.

[KC McElroy]

Because if we are for Africa or South America (5 of 5 in the finals!) than we will have in the upcoming WC Qualifications only 4 or 3.5 WC starter places.
You want this??
Every continent must be behind his own continent, or do you like to see south africa snapping 1 places or even the relegation 0.5 places away from us???
We are lucky, bringing 2 teams to next round, and africa only 1 from 5. and north america also has usa and mexico out of 3 teams!
we are also lucky, that only 6 european advaned, and only 32 will reach next round, because all teams play each other..
For WC Qualification places = more chances to qualify and vice versa....

That logic may be applicable to other countries/continents but will never fly in Iran. Iranians enjoy watching arab teams from Asia losing and would never support them or wish them good results.

[OFFSIDE_1]

as much as I hate seeing our rivals do well, I would be devastated if the grassrolling clowns in Bahrain or Qatar by some miracle make it to the second round of the WC.

[Farshad43]

Korea Vs Uruguay, it's minute 60 and the two time world champions are under immense pressure from the Koreans. Hats off to this Korean team compare to the cheating one in 2002. They have really impressed in this world cup. I hope they'll win this match.

[KC McElroy]

My condolences to South Korea.

[HuSsAiN]

Atleast they went through. Iran would go over the moon if they just scored a goal,let alone going past the group stage.

[I Walk Alone]

We should take a lesson from them.

we shouldn't learn from them. we are just a fan.
IFF should learn from them. khak bar sareshon !

[shayan20]

Korea Vs Uruguay, it's minute 60 and the two time world champions are under immense pressure from the Koreans. Hats off to this Korean team compare to the cheating one in 2002. They have really impressed in this world cup. I hope they'll win this match.

yea hats off to them they took the game to uruguay and basically owned them in the 2nd half only they lack a real finisher like suarez who showed them how to finish.

[Nokhodi]

Atleast they went through. Iran would go over the moon if they just scored a goal,let alone going past the group stage.

Some of our players would stand in awe like retards from the 2nd century, waiting for the game to end just so they could get a jersey from their favorite player. In addition they'd have to spend 3 hours before the match looking pretty for cameras.
The reason the Koreans and Japanese do well is they have no superiority or inferiority complexes towards anyone. Every opponent is the same for them and they have no fear and behave like professionals.