According to the sports reporter of Tasnim news agency, Mehdi Taj, the former president of the Football Federation, said at the funeral of the unknown martyrs: “We are all indebted to the martyrs in the field of sports and other areas of the country, and I considered it my duty to participate in this ceremony.”
He said that the draw of the Asian Champions League was held without Esteghlal and Persepolis, and unfortunately these two clubs were excluded from the competition. “We had a meeting with Mr. Sajjadi in this regard,” he said. Personally, I believe that the Asian Football Confederation has given our country, these two teams and other teams the necessary opportunities to make reforms. Giving a chance is not a cover to say they covered. This is an opportunity that has been given to other countries to determine and assign issues such as Sajavandi, stadiums, debts, and so on. This opportunity may not have been used well and the problems of these two clubs are really great.
“I spoke as AFC Vice President and we had a meeting with the Minister of Sports,” the AFC vice-president said. The minister did his best, and it was a quarterly opportunity that maybe something should have happened in those three months, but it did not happen and now the clubs have to work for the future to make these debts and the existing problems problematic. Do not. Provide at least basic evidence that sometimes this is not the case.
Taj continued: “I believe we have clubs with authority and good and the AFC did not want to eliminate these two clubs and it was not operational for them, because Esteghlal and Persepolis, along with the Saudis, have the most spectators and even affect the AFC income.” In general, there are some principles that must be followed.
“Every year the AFC gave us a chance and every year good things were done,” he said of the clubs’ problems from previous years and why no principled work was done in previous years to eliminate them. The clubs tried and paid off a lot of debts, but then came new debts. Debts must be paid and clubs must meet the AFC regulated requirements. God willing, this will happen in the coming years, and we will no longer have cases in the International Disciplinary and Judicial Committees so that we will not be banned in the AFC.
The former president of the Football Federation said that Shahabuddin Azizi Khadem said that the culprit of this omission was the fault of the previous president: “Do not pay much attention to these things.”
Taj said that Mehdi Taremi was the final three players to receive the Pushkash Award: “Many people are interested in him and I think our national team is a very powerful team.” We owe all the success to the players of the national team. Tarmi is also a very good player and has a lot of ability. Both Tarmi and the other players are very good.