According to the sports reporter of Tasnim news agency, Amir Ghalenoui said after winning 2 over a national football team of our country against Burkina Faso in a preparatory match: I offer my condolences to the people of Iran for what happened in Kerman and I ask for forgiveness for the deceased and patience for the survivors. It was an unfortunate incident and the people of Iran are mourning. I thank the officials of Kish and the people who came to the stadium, as well as you journalists who came here. We were trying to organize a preparatory game in Iran before traveling to Qatar. Today’s meeting was good for us. Burkina Faso was a strong, fast and physical team and playing with them gave us good results. After two or three training sessions, we appeared on the field for this game. In order for the bodies to reach ideal conditions, we have planned and we will also hold a preparatory meeting with Indonesia before our first match in the Asian Nations Cup.
Once again, thanking the officials of Kish Island, he stated: It was an important issue that the national team match be held here. I think the last time the national team played in Mashhad and somewhere other than Tehran and it was well received. Nothing happened today and Kish officials should think about building a bigger stadium and creating a team for Kish. Today we used one or two young players who gave us a lot of hope. The problem we had was that we did not use them despite creating many chances. This is dangerous, we need to review the game footage to fix these small issues. I’m happy with my players, they tried, especially after we scored. In the first half, we could have scored at least three goals. In the second half, Mehdi Qaidi missed a chance and we could have scored. We have to practice more, because in the Asian Nations Cup games, the teams may not give so many opportunities.
The head coach of our country’s national football team responded to the question, “How do you see the support situation for the national team on the eve of the Asian Nations Cup?”, he said: “Iranian people have always shown themselves in the worst conditions in history and what great people they are.” The friends who report, the public, the national media and journalists have become another model and support in the past week, and that was what was expected. I saw that the unity has become very good and I hope to use this opportunity and make people happy. I would like to thank the trainers’ center and Zulfiqaransab at the head of it for the campaign they launched. I would like to thank the seniors and also Saeed Zahi, who was here, and we used their points of view.
Qalanoui continued by stating that he also hopes for the current national team: “In today’s game, we were able to create opportunities in both halves. The goal we scored was not in such a position and it went into the goal due to our bad luck. We are still far from our ideals and we hope to solve our tactical problems in defense and attack.
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