Qolizadeh: We have shown that we are not short of the best in the world

According to the sports reporter of Fars news agency, Esmail Qolizadeh, after the return of the youth national team of our country from the U-17 World Cup, said: “We started the games well and we beat Brazil in the first game.” In the second game, we appeared on the field with all our strength, but according to God’s wisdom, a different result was achieved against England. With the victory against New Caledonia, we advanced from our group, but in the match against Morocco, we scored a goal in the 94th minute of bad luck and lost in the penalty shootout.

Regarding the fact that Iran’s players apparently thought the game was over after scoring the first goal in the game against Morocco, he said: It was not like that. After scoring a goal in the 74th minute, a special energy was injected into us and we wanted to keep the goal. We really used all our strength, energy and effort to advance to the next stage, but we scored a goal and the game went to penalties.

In response to the question of whether our team’s potential was the same or whether we could have climbed to a higher level, the player of the national youth team said: “We definitely could have climbed to higher levels.” You saw, we played great against Brazil and England. Calculate in any way, we did not lack these 2 teams, Germany and Spain. We could have gone higher, but that’s football.

Qolizadeh about whether the physical condition became a problem against Morocco, which was an African opponent; He said: Thank God, we were not so physically weak. In every game, our players ran more than 10 to 12 kilometers and we worked hard. However, after playing against Brazil and England, we were a bit tired. Really heavy pressure came to our team.

Regarding his request not to abandon this team, he stated: God willing, this team will not be abandoned with the support of the federation, Mehdi Taj and others, but we will still stay together and work for the future.

The youth team player said about Hossein Abdi’s role in the success of this team: Abdi has worked hard for us since 2 years ago. In the World Cup, this process continued from the first game to the last. He injected very high energy. He taught us very important technical points. I am confident that this team will be maintained and remain for the youth, Omid and adult age groups.

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