According to Mehr’s reporter, the discussion of removing Dragan Skocic from leading the Iranian national football team and choosing Carlos Queiroz instead of him has become the main topic of the sports media in the past two days. Ehsan Asulli, the spokesperson of the Football Federation, emphasized today that the board of directors of this federation has not yet reached a conclusion on the issue of changing the head coach, and that Skocic will continue to be the head coach of the national team.
Meanwhile, the news is about the efforts and pressures of organizations outside the federation to change Skocic. It is said that the opinion of the Ministry of Sports on Carlos Keyrosh is positive and there have even been talks with the former Portuguese head coach of Iran.
Beyond the efforts and challenges that the football federation has with other institutions regarding the selection of the national team, there is evidence of intra-team differences for the head coach of this team. The reaction of some players of the national team and the release of a message of support for Skocic and the silence of other players are fully indicative of the events that are going on under the skin of the national team.
This Friday morning, Sardar Azmoun along with other players such as Alireza Biranvand, Mohammad Hossein Kananizadegan, Shoja Khalilzadeh and Sadegh Moharami published a joint message on their Instagram as a supporter of Skocic.
The message of these players states: “We are the members of the national team. We thank Iran for the efforts and support of the government officials in the direction of all-round support for the national team. We announce that in the current situation, the children of the national team will work together with the technical staff to make the hearts of the Iranian people happy as before in the Qatar World Cup. Trust us and support the national team in this critical and short period until the World Cup. We, the players, ask you not to change anything. “Let’s leave everything after the World Cup.”
In these sentences, it has been emphasized to the “individuals” of the national team players to support Skocic, that so far (this afternoon) news of reposting this message on Instagram of other players including Mehdi Taremi, Alireza Jahanbakhsh, Ehsan Haj Safi, Karim Ansarifard, Amir Abedzadeh and… is not.
It seems that the players of the Iranian national team are divided into two groups, and while some are willing to continue working with Skocic, others want another coach to sit on the bench of the national team instead of him in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Khodadad Azizi, a former player of Iran’s national football team, said today, in strange words, that it is said that the national team’s dressing room and some great players are not aligned with Skocic: “It doesn’t matter if the dressing room is aligned or not. I have nothing to do with the players. Funny that we bring this up. to hell! Skocic is our first technical person. Not everyone is ready to go home. What are we afraid of? Do we want to win the World Cup when we are worried about alignment? This is the national team of Iran. This team is for everyone. It doesn’t matter if someone is aligned or not.”
With these words, Azizi has tried to convince the football federation to support Skocic, but it is no secret to anyone that even if he continues to work with the current head coach of the national team, these differences within the team can be the first and biggest disaster that affects the national team in the World Cup. threatens