National Women’s Basketball Team Coach: We have to complain to the World Federation

In an interview with IRNA sports reporter on Friday, Shayesteh Shari’a stated: “While going to level competitions B We won the 2021 Asian Cup without any preparation games and if these matches were held, we could have achieved better results. However, my players were great in the first match against Lebanon, and the Lebanese technical staff described the match against Iran as the team’s toughest game.

Pointing out that, unfortunately, the Iranian team was hit hard by the refereeing of these competitions, he said: “The players did not believe that the referee would judge the game against Lebanon in this way;” The arrangement of these matches was such that we could not reach the final. Lebanon scored 17 of 21 points from the penalty spot. In fact, the Jordanian and Kazakh referees whistled far from the imagination.

The head coach of the national women’s basketball team stated: یم In the first quarter, we scored 13 goals against Lebanon and this country scored four goals against us. In the second quarter, we finished the game with a score of 37-40 and 33 throws to Lebanon, and the team scored 25 points from the penalty spot. In the third quarter, the result of the game was 51 to 51, and technically, our team was ahead of Lebanon, and we were stopped only by the referee’s whistles. Iran’s penalty was 77% and Lebanon’s 37%.

He added: “If the referee had not judged cowardly in the first match against Lebanon, we would be the Asian champions now.” My players were under psychological pressure after the first game, and that is why they started the second match against Syria very badly. The worst point of refereeing in the game against Lebanon was that Shadi Abdolvand attacked the Lebanese ring and gained 2 points and made a mistake; This attack was canceled and it was declared August! While it was really a mistake. The tragedy of the game happened here so that they would not allow us to win the field under any circumstances, and in the end we lost the game 66-64 to Syria.

The legislator reminded: in this tournament, they put articles and comments that were not announced. They announced a TV timeout three times during the game. I even protested that the TV was out of time for the tournament. At first I thought it was TV time out or live TV for all teams, but I realized that they only use it in our games.

He continued: What was the importance of holding the game live? During our heyday, the referees kept announcing that the TV timeout and the game would stop and that he would rest in Lebanon. In the match against Syria, we did not start the game well and there was a difference in points. In the fourth quarter, we returned the game and we could get a good result and we returned this game with 65 rebounds against 35 rebounds. Our bench players scored 40 points and the young players did not focus enough on the game against Syria due to the pressure they had on the match against Lebanon, but the bench players shone brightly.

The head coach of the national women’s basketball team added: In the match against Indonesia, they made 14 errors for Iran and 17 errors for Indonesia. Indonesia was a great team. Unfortunately, in the third and fourth quarters, two of our players were injured, and in the worst case scenario, when we needed rebounds, we lost these two players and had bad luck.

“In terms of experience, we could not match Indonesia because they had a Canadian player who had a great performance and Lebanon had an American and an Armenian player and as a result the team was very influential,” he said.

Pointing out that the referees did their best in this tournament to prevent the Iranian basketball team from winning the championship and Lebanon from winning the cup, Motahari said: “The basketball federation should complain to the international federation.” Because even though they had informed about the live broadcast of the games, but in response to our request, they said that this movie has jumped! They did not want the video of the games to be released and everyone to see the flaws in the refereeing.

He added: “We will participate in the next tournament with a better program; I have to tell my players not to get tired that with a lot of effort they were able to hold high-pressure matches in Asia with close results. We show that we are the first in Asia.

Iranian women’s national basketball team in level competitions B He participated in the 2021 Asian Cup and finally finished sixth in the competition, losing to Syria, Lebanon and Indonesia. These competitions were held from 16 to 22 November.