2015 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup [8 - 23 September]

[Ab-Gosht]

iran u23 vs italy u23 right now live

iran men 3 russia men 2 friendly last night

[persian-eagle-13]

iran losses. now we have to hope that Italy beats Cuba, and we beat Egypt and we can advance somehow. even though Cuba has a better head to head against us!

[Bessos]

Iran beats Russia again.

The friendlies are done. 3 losses and 3 wins.

The World Cup in Japan comes next.

[persian-eagle-13]

^^i hope we can bring it together early on. usually we start tournaments very poorly and by the time we get it going its too late!

[Bessos]

Luckily our first three opponents are not as good as ourselves, so we have time to get ''warm''. The first powerhouse we face is Poland, our 4th opponent.

[persian-eagle-13]

Iran Volleyball Federation has become like the 2006 version of Iran Football Federation, they are dropping everything JUST for the success of Men National team. IFF dropped everything for WC 2006 and now IVF is dropping everything for the Rio 2016 games!!

They dropped the Asian championship, Students game, U 23 championship and Asia Club Championship.

Lets hope they do not fuck up this, as it will be very difficult and probably hard for us to get the 1 or 2 direct tickets for the Rio 2016 next week in Japan. i hope I am wrong but from the looks of if from the exhibition games the team does not look ready and they have dipped in conditioning and style from 2 month ago in the world league.

[Bessos]

Yeah but the last 3 friendlies were a lot more promising, especially the back-to-back victories against Russia in Moscow.

[Ab-Gosht]

Yeah but the last 3 friendlies were a lot more promising, especially the back-to-back victories against Russia in Moscow.

yes agree. I think we can be 85 % sure iran wil not win or be 2nd at world cup. But we can also be sure Japan and aussies will be no pushe over later for the direct spot from Asia so this might just get more complicated than everyone first thought

[persian-eagle-13]

^^I am really worried about this team. IVF has made some bad decisions lately. this is the "center piece" of the IVF. if they fail in this tournament I expect changes, the first candidate will be Kovaic, but i do not think he is the problem!! Davarzani needs to take responsibility as well. now that volleyball has become successful all the Lashkor are around federation trying to cash in right now!!

[Ab-Gosht]

^^I am really worried about this team. IVF has made some bad decisions lately. this is the "center piece" of the IVF. if they fail in this tournament I expect changes, the first candidate will be Kovaic, but i do not think he is the problem!! Davarzani needs to take responsibility as well. now that volleyball has become successful all the Lashkor are around federation trying to cash in right now!!

the biggest problem are the expectations. the team is playing its best more or less

[persian-eagle-13]

the biggest problem are the expectations. the team is playing its best more or less

i can't argue with you on that, that is part of the problem,but also the more IVF and iran volleyball become mainstream and under microscope the more we realize the mismanagement and unrofessionalism of the federation that claims to be at international level!

If "we" think we are world class, and If "we" want to be the best, we need to think "big". with the recent fuck ups it shows that maybe and just maybe we are riding the high clouds and we are just strike a golden generation and this was just a "one hit" wonder. a combination of golden generation coming together and making something happen out of nothing and we are just fools to believe this was years of planning and execution at all levels. again the recent fuck up show that former.

[Ab-Gosht]

2015 Volleyboll World Cup

Iran vs Arg in 26 hours. Iran had a 30 hour trip to Japan a nightmare and had only a couple of days to adjust and recover. Team is full strength.

[Abtin]

Is it the usual squad? No changes?

[Ab-Gosht]

Is it the usual squad? No changes?

yes same squad as world league. zarif is cut again.

iran starting 6 are likely to be


mahmoudi-saeid-mousavi
mirza-marandi-ebadipour

[Bessos]

I already made a thread on this event a while ago, dadash

http://www.persianfootball.com/forum...8-23-September

But yeah, first game against Velasco's team.