Even if the best coach in the world comes, there is no point in being a famous player, not a coach – Mehr news agency Iran and world’s news

Farhad Neferzadeh In an interview with Mehr reporter, he said about the conditions of the national volleyball team and the process of choosing a head coach: Those who are in charge and in charge said until a few days ago that we should not rush to choose the head coach of the national team, because they are the head, we have to accept their words. We became them. Now again, the same people who are at the top of the work say that we should determine the task of the head coach of the national team as soon as possible, and again, since these people are at the top of the work, we should accept their words!
He said: “If the officials of the federation were looking for the national team to go to the Olympics, they should have planned much earlier to organize this team.” In fact, it was time to choose the head coach of the national team after the Olympic selection. Even now, if the best coach in the world is selected for the national team, it will not be useful because the national team has lost a lot of time and has no chance to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The Iranian volleyball expert emphasized: If they choose a knowledgeable and up-to-date coach for Iranian volleyball, it will only make the national team one of the advancing teams in the 2028 Olympics. He wins the Paris Olympics, it’s just a fantasy.
Neferzadeh further said: Now the task of the head coach of the national team is not clear. How can any coach who is hired invite the players to the national team camp?! Has he seen the league games to choose from that player? When a head coach is recruited, two to three weeks later, the League of Nations will be held. Where else in the world does a coach get to know the players and select them in a short period of time?
He emphasized: If the head coach of the national team, either Iranian or foreign, was chosen after the Olympic qualifying matches, he would follow the league matches and invite the players to the national team camp. The legionnaires would also come to the camp and start planning.
Neferzadeh stated: But now a lot of time has been lost and the gentlemen’s justification is that they are not legionnaires and we should not rush. In the past years, we didn’t see how many legionnaires refused to participate in the national team. These words are nothing more than an excuse behind which the officials of the federation hide.
The volleyball expert stated that Iranian volleyball dropped after the Rio Olympics, and noted: After the Rio Olympics, Iranian volleyball started a downward trend, but the men did not want to see the decline of the national team. The result was that volleyball dropped day by day.
Regarding the selection of Saeed Maarouf as the head coach of the national team, he said: I still believe that Saeed Maarouf is one of the best current volleyball players in Iran, and we should keep him. Saeed can still help the national team as a player, not to be added to the national team as a coach.
Neferzadeh emphasized: Where in the world has a person with Saeed’s conditions taken over the leadership of a big team? All the volleyball players who were once great players gradually took over the leadership of a team. A player at the level of Saeed Maarouf should be retained, if the team loses in this League of Nations and fails to advance to the Olympics, then what will happen to Maarouf? We must not spoil the famous future.