The right decision was made to choose the volleyball head coach/stop the negotiations for the time being – Mehr news agency Iran and world’s news
According to the reporter of Mehr, after the poor results of the Iranian national volleyball team in the Olympic qualifiers and the promotion of this team to the 2024 Olympics, the officials of the federation tried to improve the conditions in this remaining opportunity. However, according to volleyball fans, it has become very difficult for the Iranian national team to qualify for the Olympics, and it is unlikely that the national team will qualify for the Olympics.
Iran’s national volleyball team, led by an Iranian coach, has achieved poor results in various competitions since the beginning of this year. In the Volleyball League of Nations, only two wins were achieved out of 12 games, and the national team experienced defeat in 10 games. In that match, due to the non-issuance of visas for some team players, Iran’s score in the world ranking was frozen, but this did not last long and Iran’s position in the world ranking was in free fall.
After these poor results, recruiting a foreign head coach was on the agenda, and three meetings of the technical committee were held so that volleyball fans could express their final opinion. From the beginning, holding meetings of the technical committee and hiring a foreign head coach were on the agenda, but in the third meeting, everything changed and internal options were chosen to lead the national team. Finally, after the last session, the names of coaches like “Gianlorenzo Bellangini, Vital Heinen, Roberto Piazza and Vladimir Alkeno” and the names of Peyman Akbari and Saeed Maarouf were also mentioned.
Vahid Moradi, Vice President of the Volleyball Federation, said in an interview with Mehr reporter about the latest situation regarding the recruitment of the head coach of Iran’s national volleyball team: “Nothing special has happened at the moment.” The coaches that we are interested in are making plans and we have to see what happens in the future.
In response to the question of whether the federation’s opinion is on recruiting a foreign or Iranian coach and how the negotiations with Maarouf have progressed, he said: We are not entering into this issue at the moment and it is better after examining all aspects and opinions of the members of the technical committee of this issue. be examined.
The selection of the head coach of the national volleyball team took place in a situation where the four-year term of refereeing Mohammad Reza Davarzani will end in eight days, and it seems that the officials of the volleyball federation themselves have come to the conclusion that the selection of the head coach of the national team is not advisable at the moment and should be done after the appointment of the chairman The national team head coach federation should also be selected.
The four-year term of arbitration management will end on November 29 of this year, and after that, the federation will be in the supervisory phase until elections are held. Of course, the referee Mohammadreza, whose retirement was discussed before, is one of the options for the president of the federation, and if he is re-elected, the process of selecting the head coach of the national team will be more serious than before.