According to the sports reporter of Tasnim News Agency, our national football team must participate in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar this year, but this is not the only challenge of the Football Federation. Omid team first has the Asian Under-23 Championship, it must participate in the games of Islamic countries and then the Asian Games. On the one hand, there must be a team that the fans expect from their group to advance to the World Cup, and on the other hand, there is the preparation of a team that many hope can reach the 2024 Paris Olympics.
In addition, the issue of the football federation is the most important. The federation, whose duties are not yet clear, will be governed by a supervisor, and on June 30, the assembly will determine the temporary or permanent removal of Shahabuddin Azizi Khadem. In this situation, too, the board of directors promotes affairs that are divided from within, and this issue can prevent the proper preparation and, of course, the peace of the national team.
The federation has to prepare for the national team in a situation where there are still ambiguities about continuing to work with Dragan Skucic, and this coach has opponents in the body of the federation. Some inside the board are not satisfied with the continuation of the Football Federation’s cooperation with Skocic, and even after the game with Lebanon, statements in this regard were marginalized.
In addition to this uncertainty and ambiguity, another issue is very important. In the current situation where the football federation has to prepare the national team for the World Cup, not only does it not have money, but its accounts have been closed since the end of last year. Although it is rumored that the national team will play friendly matches in Qatar, and it seems that the good relationship between Iran and Qatar and, of course, the Memorandum of Understanding between the two countries’ football federation will not cost the federation, it still cannot be said that the national team is free. . Providing some facilities for domestic camps, running costs such as national flights from Europe to Iran and Qatar requires a budget that the moneyless federation today can afford. All this is in a situation where the federation’s account has been closed due to tax debts, so that the residents of the Seoul building will also have problems in their daily affairs.
Today’s challenges of the Football Federation, in an important year full of important events for the two national teams for adults and under 23, along with uncertainty in the management of this federation, can deal a fatal blow to Iranian football, if those involved in these events Are, do not advance the issue properly.
According to Tasnim, the 2022 World Cup will be held in Qatar in November and December of this year, and Iran is in the same group with England, the United States and one of the teams of Wales, Scotland or Ukraine.