Mizan News Agency – Dragan Skucic That since the acceptance of guidance Iran National Football Team “I am a foreigner on the bench of the Iranian national team, but I was practically like a coach who started at home,” he told the Croatian daily Novielist. When I took charge of the national team, I knew the players and their mentality, although the situation was not good at all at that time because the national team had lost to Bahrain and Iraq.
He added: “We were under a lot of pressure and we were not allowed to lose a single point, so the situation was quite stressful. He was with the national team for many years and he did not manage to defeat Bahrain and Iraq away from home, but we coped well with the situation and everything went well. We also maintained an unbreakable rhythm.
“We have a really good process, but in football there is no such thing as peace and living with the honors of the past,” Skocic said, referring to the national team’s nine consecutive wins under his tutelage, with 28 goals scored and two conceded. I am well aware that the most important issue is the team’s progress game, not the previous games. It is important that we have a winning mentality.
The head coach of the national team, whose team will face the UAE in the qualifying round of the 2022 World Cup in early October and then meet South Korea in the same month, reminded: the game with the UAE and Korea can take us one foot to the World Cup and If we win these matches, we will be closer to our big goal.
“There is always a certain imbalance in the team, because not all players are at a high level, but we have a world-class offensive line and maybe even a better offensive line than the Croatian national team,” Skucic said. We have the best Porto player, Mehdi Tarmi. The other test captain is our striker, who has been one of Zenit’s top scorers in the Russian league for the last three years, and Alireza Jahanbakhsh, who plays for Feyenoord. There are also other players who play in AEK Greece, Charleroi, Belgium, etc. These are players for whom Real Madrid can not be great.
“Iranians are crazy about football,” he said of the Iranians. 80 million people live there, they are happy with the victory of their team and the defeats are sad for them. All news is covered by the media. The atmosphere there was bad when the national team lost to Bahrain and Iraq, but now the situation has completely changed. We did a good job, but this process must continue and strengthen the team base.
The head coach of the national team said about the promotion of the Iranian national team in the recent FIFA rankings: Now we are in the 22nd place in the world and we know what this means. Croatia, for example, ranks 17th in the world in this category. What matters most is that we are now the top team in Asia, ahead of Japan. This is the most important thing for the national team, because it is more compared to Asian teams.
“When I find time between national team games, I come to my house in Rica,” Skochic said. Life without a family is also difficult in the face of the coronavirus epidemic. If the situation was different, I might have taken my family with me to Iran, but at the moment this is impossible.
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