Iran Men's Volleyball National Team @Rio

[EKBATAN]

It was too good to be true. I had a feeling we were gonna lose when we didnt close set 1

FUKK!

[ehsan singapore]

they wont renew with him. thanx for takin us to olympics!

Che heyf shod we played insane 1st set

we wanted the polish coach, however he said he could only come feb and that was little time , hence they went with lozano

[Vestvood Vizard]

Iran didn't play too bad, but Italy is just at a different level than them right now. Iran's first Olympics compared to an Italian team that is going to their 6th straight medal round.

Moreover, the Italians and other top teams have different athletes than Iran. They look a lot fitter. Iran needs to work on strength and conditioning.....then come back with sleeveless jerseys and show our guns to the world in Tokyo 2020!

[Amin_]

Meh it was clear that it was going to be over after the loss in the first set. Overall Italy was just too strong after the first set.

[Doroudi]

Everything with Iran is always too good to be true

[BacheLot]

Choke

[mahestan]

And that's the way the cookie crumbles.

[BusiG]

Mental strenght is what sadly most of our Athletes are missing. You can dominate as much as you want but without mental strenght you wont reach anything!

[inarsenewetrust]

incredible achievement by our boys to get to the olympics and to QF. Obviously, in this situation, teams like italy who have been here soooooo many times have the advantage. They are experienced and now how to handle certain situations. Nonetheless a good run.

[Vestvood Vizard]

I'm going to miss Marouf and his beard.

Also going to miss the 'Let Iranian Women Enter Their Stadiums' sign. But she got the word out. So damesh garm. https://twitter.com/SafaiDarya

[Keano]

Mental collapse in general is our number 1 enemy and shortcoming. This applies to all our sports and even daily lives in general. Hard fought, we lost fair and square. All in all Italy is the better side nonetheless.

Hard luck boys and thank you for making it this far, and making history by qualifying to the olympics for the first time ever!

[Tehranto]

Good job by the boys, we need to build on this.

[Abtin]

I'm going to miss Marouf and his beard.

Also going to miss the 'Let Iranian Women Enter Their Stadiums' sign. But she got the word out. So damesh garm. https://twitter.com/SafaiDarya

Is Marouf stopping?

[Tehranto]

I felt we lacked a bit of height. I love Marouf and all he has done but it's time to turn a new leaf.

[EKBATAN]

we lacked height and had no answers for Italy's spikes! We need to get better at blocking those