Iran Volleyball

[inarsenewetrust]

The vibe in the stadium was great. Arab commentator had great time looking at female selection on both side, as well as our 7 representative iranian flag choices.

Meanwhile IRIB had to keep replaying old points every 2 seconds and confusing the hell out of anybody still watching on their stream.

[PSGman#19]

Congrats to them! Was a nice tournament

[DR Strangemoosh]

Great hope for this young squad...

[_Navid_]

That first point in the 5th set made the difference. We had several chances to win it.
And I truly feel sorry for whoever still watches IRIB streams!!

[oracle]

bacheha motchakarim
bacheha motchakarim.
finishing top 8 in the world is
great achievment.

poland rested in the 4th set pretty much
and they where more fresher in set 5.
losing to #1 team is no shame.

run it back again next year.

[diz]

We already beat Poland at home in this tourney, which says a lot. Boys looked great today. Lots of unforced errors, so it could have gone our way for sure with a little more concentration. Great Iran crowd in Bologna!

[Nokhodi]

Iranian sports fans are truly some of the most fickle and unfair towards Iranian coaches. Ataei has a junior world championship in his resume and pretty much coached many of these kids at youth levels, but our usual intellectual crowd are calling for his firing, and begging for Velasco. Just shameless.

[Abtin]

give these guys some years together, they'll be back stronger! 💪🏻🔥

[peiman92]

At least 3-4 possible starters have been injured for a while. It’s close to our A team but not truly our best.

After this tournament, our current team is our A-team IMO.
Those guys will have a very difficult time getting their starting spot back.

[peiman92]

Iranian sports fans are truly some of the most fickle and unfair towards Iranian coaches. Ataei has a junior world championship in his resume and pretty much coached many of these kids at youth levels, but our usual intellectual crowd are calling for his firing, and begging for Velasco. Just shameless.

I think our fans would have reacted the same, had Velasco been our coach.
Our fans problem: When we manage to defeat a big team, we'll never accept a defeat against them again.
I'm guilty of this as well.

[oracle]

Iranian sports fans are truly some of the most fickle and unfair towards Iranian coaches. Ataei has a junior world championship in his resume and pretty much coached many of these kids at youth levels, but our usual intellectual crowd are calling for his firing, and begging for Velasco. Just shameless.

begining of this tournment i called firhis head too.
we started awful , turnung oint was win against u.s.
i was wrong about him as he gets alot of credit fr having this team bonce back . he deserves next year to be on our bench in this tournment again...

[Ab-Gosht]

Honestly it will be very difficult for even 1 single player that was outside this team to take their spot back. Players like Vadi and Jelveh who started very slow and insecure grew so much! Its said Mousavi will be back for WC but i'd assume jelveh is future of the team for that middle blocker spot

[FootballeKhob]

After this tournament, our current team is our A-team IMO.
Those guys will have a very difficult time getting their starting spot back.

They will all easily have their place right away. Vadi will get replaced by karimi. Kazemi, salehi, mojarad and saadat will all be included when ready

[Nokhodi]

I think our fans would have reacted the same, had Velasco been our coach.
Our fans problem: When we manage to defeat a big team, we'll never accept a defeat against them again.
I'm guilty of this as well.

I don’t know. Velasco’s biggest failure with Iran was failing to qualify for London 2012. Barely anyone said anything. An Iranian coach would have been whipped in the streets.

[peiman92]

I don’t know. Velasco’s biggest failure with Iran was failing to qualify for London 2012. Barely anyone said anything. An Iranian coach would have been whipped in the streets.

Remember our team started to get better in 2011, so 2012 was too early to judge.
From VNL 2013 our team started to compete with the very best and beat them.

If Velasco was our coach in 2016/2020 and we had failed to qualify for the olympics, Velasco would have been whipped.