Khalil Sephersebhani, the former CEO of Saipa Club, has provided a note to Tasnim news agency about the difficult conditions of Iranian football and especially the football federation, which you can read below:
Regardless of rejecting or accepting the logic of Azizi Khadem’s management, two models can be used to judge him. First, he made a judgment about his performance, and secondly, he judged his record. Most of the criticisms of Azizi Khadem’s critics and opponents are aimed at his work rather than his record. From the suspicion of managerial financial corruption to the existence of a relationship with a witch and sorcerer and so on. That is, in general, not only have they not objected to his team results and sports achievements during his management of national football, but they have even sometimes seen Iran’s economic qualification to the World Cup as a valuable achievement in his career.
In this case, the objections and criticisms of the opponents were mostly about the way he and his team managed the federation.
Any decision to select replacement members and teams in the federation must be fundamentally dependent on improvement and functional health and at the same time be able to repeat the justified and acceptable results of the previous team and even improve the record of the previous members. This statement is not available in the current situation, which in itself is a serious dead end.
With respect to all those who step forward to the elections, I would like to say that it is very difficult to agree on a person and those who have both a relatively acceptable track record and a managerial background that is acceptable to football people. Unless a consensus emerges with the centrality of the decision-making category of the far-hand and with the support of the voters.
Another point to analyze the current situation is to pay attention to the nature of the recent changes in the management of national football. Azizi Khadim’s departure in this way – whether it is right or wrong is not my place to discuss – in addition to having a topical effect on the country’s football, it also had a situational effect, which means that although it is possible in this election, the issue of the management of the federation and national football will be restored, but logic came and The steering of a management team has been questioned and it cannot be easily corrected and repaired based on new experience, and this is another proposition that affects the atmosphere of the upcoming elections.
Currently, we have seen that due to the lack of dominant power in the management system of national football, down to the smallest levels of this field, a kind of chronic confusion and insularity in affairs has been formed and intensified, which is itself a corrupt bed and subsequent deviations that can somehow destroy our previous achievements. to blow A good example of that is the entry of national team players accompanied or not accompanied by the head coach of the national team.
Apparently, the only way to get out of the current situation – wanted or not – is to define a transition period in which someone with the will of the decision-maker and the consensus of the voters will take responsibility, even though the cycle of damage to the national football body will remain unrepaired. In order to compensate for the latter case, i.e. to correct the damage cycle, the country’s football community, including fans, veterans, athletes, managers, and professions related to this field, should actively and proactively enter and consider urgent demands, the main of which is insisting on economic transparency in the pillars. And the components of national football.
Acquiring a platform and sports honor, especially for the basic level teams, should be another demand of football fans from the future and transitional management team, because in the current situation, capital formation is usually abandoned in favor of current affairs management, and lastly, from this angle and with The goal of preserving social capital in football, solving the issue of worthy and dignified presence of women in football fields should also be placed on the agenda as a justified and urgent expectation.
In recent years, the core of the organizational authority and professional management of football has suffered serious damage, the peak of which was the removal of Azizi Khadim, the head of the federation. This situation has led to divergence, fragmentation and fragmentation of national football management. Like when you cut a magnet into several pieces and put it under paper! In this case, around each piece of magnets, multiple fields and magnetic entanglements are formed from scraps.
Now, around the influential people and groups in the national football management, conflicting and sometimes opposing opinions, opinions, expectations and wills have been formed, which you can see in the wandering election formation of the candidates, which will continue until the supremacy of one over the rest. But the damage increases when actions are taken outside of the usual routine and rule, such as accepting the registration of people without following the rules and regulations or changing the head coach under the excuse of a weak technical foundation.
It seems that in the near future it is not possible to reach a consensus that satisfies both parties, because the people who could play the role of judge and arbitrator, themselves somehow turned into players in this field and therefore to avoid its disastrous consequences. There is no other choice but to accept a compromise, which is fragile and vulnerable by nature and will ultimately be the main victim of national football.”