The volleyball alarm sounded a year ago/we didn’t have youth in the team – Mehr news agency Iran and world’s news
Farhad Neferzadeh Iranian volleyball expert in an interview with Mehr reporter, about rejuvenation In the national volleyball team, he said: After the Tokyo Olympics, some players announced that they no longer want to play in the national team or that they did not like to play volleyball in Iran. Saeed Maarouf and Amir Ghafoor and some players whose number is as large as the fingers of one hand; Mohammad Mousavi announced his withdrawal from the national team last year, but returned again. The rest of the players from the Olympic generation are all present in the team.
The absence of famous Saeed and Ghafoor was not a change of generation
The volleyball expert emphasized: With these conditions, a large number of players did not withdraw from the national team. If Saeed Marouf and Amir Ghafoor were not there, we would look at it as a generational change. It would be a mistake. It is true that Saeed Maarouf was one of the most influential players of the national team who is known as the best passer in the history of Iranian volleyball, but the national team lost many matches with him and we won many games without Saeed Maarouf.
He said: Therefore, it is a wrong idea that because he is not in the national team, we will lose the games. Javad Karimi and Mohammad Taher Wadi, two players who play in the position of passer instead of Maroub, were many times by his side in various competitions. This means that both players had experience in the national team, so we did not change the structure in any way in the position of passer. The famous farewell was a natural event in Iranian volleyball.
Some players played better than Ghafoor
Neferzadeh He stated: Amir Ghafoor also had the same condition; Of course, the situation in his case is a little different; because sometimes players appeared in the field instead of him who played better than Ghafoor, such as Saber Kazemi, Pouria Yili. Hajipour, Ismailnejad and Bardia Saadat all showed; They were even better than Amir Ghafoor in some games. Therefore, the absence of the famous Ghafoor and Saeed Ma’rou cannot be called a change of generation or a change of structure.
We had a player change rejuvenation!
He said: These changes were made in the national team over time and are not specific to the time of Behrouz Atai. We had a player change in our national team rejuvenation. The number of players who said goodbye to the national team and their number is not the same as the fingers of one hand. Besides that, other players were added to the team long ago. In the few years that Behrooz Atai has been leading the team, he has changed several players, so we cannot consider this a generational change.
National team results related to rejuvenation did not have
A volleyball expert said: Saber Kazemi has been replaced by Ismail Nejad. A lot of players of the time Alceno and Igor Kolakovic were in the team and since Behrouz Atai’s presence, only Ismail Nejad, Pouria Valizadeh, Hajipour, Valizadeh and Pouria Khanzadeh have been added. Homayunfermanesh He is also a 30-year-old player, so there may be better and younger players than him in the Premier League, but the opinion of the technical staff is on this player and his opinion is also respected. Therefore, three or four players were added to the team during the time when Behrouz Atai took over the leadership of the team, and the rest were already there. Less than the fingers of one hand, the players have moved, which is not called a generational change, and it cannot be said because of it rejuvenation The team achieved these results.
I don’t believe that the team could not get results because of the pressure
In response to the question of what was the main weakness of the team in the League of Nations, he said: I heard in the talks of the head coach and members of the technical staff that they could not get results in the League of Nations because of the high pressure on the players. This matter does not fit into my belief, the people of volleyball and the people. Our players are all good and experienced, and in the last four games, their individual performance was quite noticeable. Therefore, it cannot be said that they could not work well because of the pressure.
Officials cannot close the doors of criticizing the team
Iranian volleyball expert noted: On the other hand, volleyball fans in Anaheim They cheered for the national team and without exception the players expressed this issue after every match. Iranian spectators all supported the team; Therefore, it is incorrect to say that the pressure on the players was due to the lack of support from the fans. All over the world, this is the routine that fans react to after a team’s poor performance. The federation and the technical staff cannot close the doors of criticism and say that no one should talk about the results of the national team, the team will be better in the future. They keep saying that the team is improving; While they have to say where the team will be in the next 4 years.
Last year the alarm was sounded but they did not want to hear it
Neferzadeh He said: Volleyball is among the top 10 teams in the world under any conditions; He placed 13th in the World Championship, which sounded the alarm for volleyball since last year, but the officials did not want to hear it. After those matches, the referee said that we will strengthen the technical staff of the team. Strengthening the bench of the national team from the 13th place in the World Championship to the 4th place in the League of Nations.
It is not ethical to talk about foreign players and coaches
Regarding the talk and hadith about the foreign coaches of the national team, he said: When the contract was signed with these two foreign coaches; No one understood the details. If these issues are raised now that the team has a bad result, it is the height of immorality. Officials and members of technical work should be responsible for the results of the national team, not those two foreign coaches who now put all the blame on them. Now they say that these two coaches were introduced by Mohammad Mousavi, why was it not raised at the time that he interfered in the technical work. Now, after the games, they bring up the discussion of foreign coaches and players. Are these ethical issues?