Chamanian: Premier League coaches only congratulate the youth team, but they don’t have the courage to use them

According to the sports reporter of Fars news agency, Abbas Chamanian said about the meeting of our country’s national youth team against Morocco in the round of 16 of the Under-17 World Cup: One of the good things that happened to the first and third teams of our group was facing the teams of Group A is the World Cup, which had a weaker quality than other World Cup groups. Due to the presence of Indonesia, the host of the tournament in the first group, the conditions for the promotion of the teams of this group were better. There is not much difference between Morocco and Ecuador who came up from this group. That is, if we were first in our group, we would face Ecuador in the eighth round, which is not much different from Morocco. We have a great chance to reach the quarterfinals. Of course, until the game on Tuesday, we have to fix the weaknesses we had in the group stage, especially against Brazil and England, and we have to organize our defensive structure better in order to play a good game against Morocco and get a good result.

The former head coach of the national youth team explained about the performance of this team in the group stage: a very important feature of the youth age group is that the qualitative distance between the youth football players of the countries is not great, except for New Caledonia, which was fundamentally different from the other teams in this group. The other teams are not far from each other, because the talent of the players has not yet reached full maturity so that countries like Brazil, France, Spain and England can increase their distance from the second and third world football countries. For this reason, we expected that if our team does not make too many individual mistakes and has a good focus considering the age of the children, we will have a good performance overall.

Chamanian added: If we skip the second half of the game against Brazil, which had very special conditions, and always in football from the youth to the senior level, returning to the game when the team is behind by two to zero is considered a remarkable thing, against England. We did not create many chances. In many minutes of the game, we played tight defense and that was our only way. In a situation where England put a lot of pressure on us like Brazil, we had to think about defensive work. Of course, we shouldn’t leave the game with Morocco to chance. Because if our defensive structure is not coherent, maybe they won’t pass the chances very easily like Brazil and England. In general, we had a good performance in the group stage and once again it was proved that Iranian children have a lot of merit, ability and competence.

He added: If they are looked at more seriously and can find a better path in the future, we can hope for these players. In addition, we should not forget that FIFA’s goal of holding the Youth World Cup is the development of football. Winning a position, becoming a champion or reaching the top 4 teams, although it is an honor for a country, but the basis and main goal of the work should not be forgotten. Children who get the opportunity to participate in such a tournament, if they make a mistake, it will be a great lesson for them in the future in the adult age group, so that they will not make such mistakes again and their performance fluctuation will decrease. This is one of the main characteristics of the World Cup in this age group. There is no difference between Brazil and Iran. As we saw, Brazil also made mistakes against us that are specific to the youth age group.

The football expert of our country emphasized: Regardless of the result of the match with Morocco, we should not get involved in emotions. The fact that our team was able to compete against big teams and its players were able to participate in this cup as representatives of a large number of talents in the country, is good and we should look at them as an asset in the future. A lot of money and time has been spent on these children to become the future assets of the country’s football while participating in the World Cup tournament.

Chamanian, in response to the fact that his team recorded the best performance in the history of all national teams in football by participating in the quarterfinals of the 2017 World Cup, but for what reason, except for people like Amir Hossein Hosseinzadeh and Allahyar Sayadmanesh, who rarely participate in the camps of the senior team. participated, the other members of that team could not gain a significant place in football, he said: There is still no comprehensive plan for football development in our football. There is no difference between the federation and the clubs in this field. Iran is a talented country, but if we don’t have a capitalist view, we will not do anything. The development plan is the same thing that the football-owning countries make. With the like-mindedness of thinkers and people who have an opinion in the field of football design and planning, they do something to pave the way for the development of elites and talented people. Many times, the question is raised, how many people who are members of the national team in different age groups, can reach the senior national team? We do not expect all of them to reach that position, but considering the investment made, it is expected that a significant part of these children will reach this position.

He continued: In the last 3-4 years, and maybe from the age group of young people, we have given the opportunity to 21 players who are now in the World Cup, to participate in national camps and to participate in international tournaments as elite football players of the country, so that they can progress. to be passed Not protecting these capitals and not having a plan to continue their growth may create a break or block the path of progress. We should not see the World Cup as the end of attention for these children. This has happened in previous years and from the team that recorded that brilliant performance in the 2017 World Cup, very few players made it to the national level. The reason is their abandonment. Despite the given slogans, neither the clubs nor the football federation paid enough attention to them.

The former head coach of the national youth team noted: How many youth team players will play in our clubs after the World Cup? Do the coaches of the Premier League have the courage, bravery, courage and forward-looking view of these teenagers to use them? The first expectation after the World Cup is that we will use some youth team players like England and Brazil at the first level of our football to show their savings, experiences and lessons from the World Cup in the premier league of our country. . Finally, the senior national team will use this issue. If we are going to shed skin in this age group and see a new generation in the national team, who better than the youth and youth players who are the football elite of our country. Unfortunately, many of our coaches can only congratulate the youth team’s success, but among the 16 Premier League teams, few have the courage to play these players and pave the way for their growth.

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