According to Mehr news agency, the annual general meeting of the wrestling federation was held this morning at the federation building under the chairmanship of Barna Firouzi, vice president of development and financial management of the Ministry of Sports. Arash Farhadian, Director General of Federations’ Joint Affairs Office, Mehin Farhadizad, Vice President of the National Olympic Committee, Alireza, Secretary of the Wrestling Federation, and heads of provincial committees were present in this forum.
At the beginning of this forum, Alireza, the secretary of the wrestling federation, said: “We had 66 delegations and we are the only federation that has to pay 40,000 or 50,000 francs in addition to the plane ticket.” whatever we say Manaf Hashemi (secretary of the National Olympic Committee) does not understand, we are friends, but he does not understand this. We have 5 age groups in each freestyle and freestyle discipline, and there are also women. At least 22 people were present in each mission. America will go to the World Championship with 120 people, Russia with 90 people and us with 47 people.
Referring to the wrestling titles and medals, he added: “Our team should become the world and Olympic champions, and everything except the Olympic gold is empty.” They say you disrespect the previous ones, but I don’t disrespect you. This is my thinking. I told the young children 3 Olympic golds. Why an Olympic gold? This is our thinking. 11 Olympic golds are not enough for wrestling. Wrestling, which has 82% of sports medals. Previously, they used to take the first team to the World Cup and “Showman” was playing and doing busy work. We took the second or third team to the Asian Championship. It is true that our performance was bad and we were followed up and dealt with.
* We will send the second or third team to the Asian Games
Criticizing the Olympic Committee, he noted: With this budget, we will send the second or third team to the Asian Games. Four months of last year and the Olympic Committee has given us only 3 billion. No matter how much money they give, they will eat. No federation has matched our performance and we were on the podium in all age groups. I am not at all satisfied with these results and we must become world champions in all categories. All countries must run so that we can reach the Olympic championship. Mazandaran “Taj Sar”. We kiss their hands too, but all provinces, even Kish Island, must become strong in wrestling. Our freestyle juniors won medals in the 10-weight Asian Games and became the champion, but what made me happy was that our kids were playing catch-up. I wanted to become Akbar Fallah, but I couldn’t because everyone has their own style of wrestling. Pushing out of the mattress is gathering in our ship and we see the result of our 4 years of work. All our wrestlers, except for two wrestlers, always say that they ate our right. Abbas Jadidi still says that they ate my right, but today we set a cycle that the selection of wrestlers is based on the law and participation in domestic and foreign competitions. You won’t find a wrestler who will say that they ate our right.
* We are obliged to cooperate with Iraq because the minister signed a memorandum of understanding with them
He also said: We are obliged to cooperate with Iraq because the minister of sports has signed it. The Iraqi team of 26 people is camping here and other foreign teams have also come. Every day we spend at least one million tomans for one person only for food, but Mrs. Farhadizad! I don’t know why Manaf Hashemi doesn’t understand? We had 107 training camps. this is so bad. Even the mattress and support of our wrestlers are medical. I have had all sorts of problems. Here we were killing lice. Not one of our dispatches has been cancelled. In the under-23 team, our thinking is both Paris and Los Angeles. The population of wrestling was less than 30,000 people, but today the population of Iranian wrestlers has reached 400,000 people. Our horizon is 2028, when we must reach 800 thousand people and we must become Olympic champions.
* We will increase the number of insured trainers to 1200 this year
The head of the wrestling federation noted: This year, we will insure 1,200 coaches, and the number of coaches from provinces like Kermanshah, which have helped less, will be fewer, and active provinces will be more. We record that Iran can be strong in all fields. Not for other federations, but for all sectors, we should be an example. On the first day when we wanted to build here, everyone said it would not be possible, but it was done. All the presidents of our boards are economically active and contribute a lot to the development of wrestling in their provinces. In Mazandaran, the head of the board has spent 10 to 15 billion in these few months, while the head of the previous board did not even have 100 million.
* The ship has the capacity to generate income
The secretary said: it is possible to work well in the Islamic Republic. Those who beat us are because we say Islamic Republic. We need to achieve revenue generation on board and we are achieving this goal with the plans we have. The ship has the capacity to generate income. You will not find 18 mats anywhere in the world, but we have national teams in the camp. The head coach of Russia came and said it is very good, 5 or 6 countries can train here. Previously, when they wanted to do bodybuilding, it was not possible, but today a hundred people can do bodybuilding together, we have equipment and it is not a problem. We have included 22 hours of welfare for the wrestlers so that they can work for 2 hours well. We have a live broadcasting studio so that our children do not have to go to radio and television, or we have a cinema that is connected to all the cinemas in the country online so that children can watch the movies of the day. Playstation, tennis, billiards, swimming pool, sauna and jacuzzi, etc., all comfort and entertainment items have been prepared for children. The cooling system cost us 30 billion. Our children need to sleep in a nice and cool environment to train well, but in our time we were sweltering with heat. At 8 pm, the children of the national team should hand over their mobile phones. Instead, we built a library so that children can read good books. All 31 heads of our board, except for one or two people, gave their lives. I hope Kermanshah will not stay here longer because Kermanshah is very important to us.
* If I am going to stay in the federation, we have a lot of work to do
He added: Only 2 federations have independent doors in Azadi complex, one is ours and one is the football federation. The Football Federation is the guardian of the group, but we are the guardians of ourselves. All our work is on the system. Sending teams to domestic competitions is also supposed to be done on the system. It’s not like before that they get more quota by ringing and calling and everything will be fair and transparent. If I am to serve my friends, we have many plans. Of course, I will not abandon the ship because the ship has to go up as well. Those who say that the ship was only built is injustice. Construction has been just one of our jobs.