The national volleyball team is on the wrong side of the “next meeting”/the beginning of negotiations with a new option – Mehr news agency Iran and world’s news
According to Mehr reporter, after the poor performance of Iran’s national volleyball team in the Olympic qualifiers and falling in the world rankings, and Behrouz Atai’s resignation as the head coach of Iran’s national volleyball team, the federation sought to hire a foreign coach.
There were many options for leading the national volleyball team, until finally, after a lot of struggle, people like “Roberto Piazza, Vital Henin, Saeed Maarouf and Angelo Lorenzetti” were included in the list of the volleyball federation to lead the national team, although the name “Angelo” Lorenzetti” was included in the list of options for leading the national team after the end of the referee’s term in the volleyball federation and the appointment of Vahid Moradi as the head. Finally, while everyone was waiting for one person to be selected as the head coach of the national volleyball team in the meeting of the technical committee, there was no news and the national team, which has been without a head coach since October 14, was still in limbo.
There is time, but climbing is hard
In the meeting of the technical committee, Mahmoud Afshardost was chosen as the spokesperson of the technical committee and regarding the selection of the head coach of the national volleyball team, he said that we have enough time to choose the head coach and we should not rush, although according to the spokesperson of the technical committee, we have enough time, but we should not forget It is very difficult to advance to the Olympics for the national volleyball team, due to the fall of the national volleyball team in the world ranking, the road to the Olympics has become very difficult, and the national volleyball team has the last chance to become an Olympian in June next year in the League of Nations 2024. They must achieve 9 victories in these competitions to improve their position in the world ranking. The national team is now in the 15th place in the world ranking and teams like Argentina, Slovenia, Italy, Serbia, Cuba, Holland and even Turkey have better conditions than Iran.
Cancellation of options for unknown reasons
It was announced after the technical committee meeting Two foreign options for the national volleyball team For some reasons, they withdrew from negotiations with the volleyball federation, at first they talked about the withdrawal of Roberto Piazza and Henin, but it soon became clear that these two options were “Angelo Lorenzetti and Vital Heinen”. In this way, “Angelo Lorenzetti”, whose technical committee members had opened a special account on his selection, withdrew from Iran. Of course, the new head of the federation is going to enter into negotiations with him again. Due to the withdrawal of these two people, the members of the technical committee decided to postpone this issue for the time being so that the volleyball federation can consider other options for leading the national team.
New options on the Federation Administrator table
Now Moradi, the head of the volleyball federation, is going to enter into negotiations with other options, and according to the news received from the federation, one option from the American continent and one option from the European continent are being considered by the volleyball federation. Now the members of the technical committee have to wait for other options besides Maruf and Piazza. Before the meeting of the technical committee, it was stated that Saeed Maarouf had withdrawn, and one of the members of the technical committee of the federation rejected this issue in a conversation with Mehr reporter and emphasized that Maarouf is still one of the serious options to lead the national volleyball team.
The uncertainty of Iran’s volleyball contribution in the Olympic year
The members of the technical committee believe that there should be no rush to choose the head coach of the national team, because a hasty choice may harm Iranian volleyball, but the national volleyball team is in complete uncertainty in the year leading up to the Olympics, so that it has been 3 months since the selection of the head coach. It is in an aura of uncertainty and despite the many meetings held by the volleyball federation, the bench of the national team is still empty and it is not clear when this uncertainty will end. An issue that was recently criticized by Mohammad Mousavi, the captain of the national volleyball team. With these conditions, the members of the technical committee postponed the decision on the head coach of the national team to the weekly meetings, and with this account, we have to wait for the holding of long meetings and perhaps no output!