Farzad Abdullahi In an interview with IRNA, regarding his team’s championship in the first experience of participating in the Taekwondo Premier League, he said: “The Premier League this year was more attractive than imagined and I think this charm is a positive event.”
He added: “It was our team’s first appearance in the Premier League and we gathered the team 10 days before the matches.” The club announced that it wants to manage the team, and we recruited the players of our province, and we also recruited the free players of Varamin Municipality. We also asked “Payam Khanlarkhani” to lead the team, and thank God we finally won.
Abdullahi continued: The structure of the team consisted of taekwondo fighters from Miyaneh, several Mazandaran players and one or two players from Tehran. Everyone gave their lives and we won the competition in a close competition with the young and good team.
Regarding the complaints of the head of the Kerman Copper team, who stated that the Sungun Copper Club lost the midfielders of the team to the team through various means, he said: “On the first day, we announced to the CEO of the Iran Copper Company that we should hire our native players.” The recruitment was ordered by the CEO of Copper. We did not do anything by force and the contract of Kerman copper players was not registered in the federation, otherwise we could not have hired them.
Mes Sungun coach added: “Salman Khajeh Hassani, the head of the Kerman copper team, is one of my friends and I have played for this team. Friends should not be unfair. Of course, maybe I would have said the same thing in his place. We are two subsidiaries of the National Copper Company and these professions should not be overstated.
“We had about 12 players in total and we need to recruit new taekwondo fighters for next season to become stronger to defend the title and succeed in the Asian Club Cup,” Abdullahi said. Our work has become difficult and now the expectations from the Mes Sungun Varzeqan team have risen.