Ali Demirkalai, the coach of the Sari Stars freestyle wrestling team, told Mehr reporter after his team’s draw against the strong and contender Bank Shahr team: “Our team is not comparable to our strong competitors in any way, and this issue is quite evident from the financial point of view.” Looking at the salaries of the members of this team, we can see that the contracts of some of them are equal to the total contracts of our team; But I am very happy that even with this situation, we were able to appear well in front of this team and we were defeated with an equal result of 5:5 and with only one less technical point.
He also criticized some refereeing mistakes and said: In the 86 kg wrestling, Asghari from our team was able to hit his opponent with a technical blow, but the referees did not believe it and continued the work. The refereeing in some other ships worked completely against us, and if it wasn’t for this refereeing problem, our team would have come out as the winner.
The coach of the Star wrestling team also pointed to the upcoming matches of his team against the opponents and added: “Our team was able to participate in the Premier League in a way that we did not think of advancing as the first team from the very beginning.” As a result, many hope that we will go to the semi-finals as the second team in the group, and with the same mentality as in the match against Shahr Bank, we are going to appear with all our strength in the next game. Of course, we always bring our best people into the fight so that the spectators and fans of wrestling can enjoy watching the wrestling.
In the end, Demirkalai stressed that the wrestling federation should formulate and implement a better plan for holding the league and said: According to the program and schedule of the competitions, our children have to lose weight many times in four weeks, while we have several people in each weight. We don’t have it and there is a lot of pressure on them. Of course, this problem does not exist in wealthy teams that have managed to attract many people, because they actually have as many as two teams with full composition and can send fresh and ready wrestlers to the field every week. However, we are not disappointed at all and will try with all our strength to reach the semi-final stage and the final of the Premier League.